United States v. John Morgan Williamson

Williamson was found guilty of unlawful escape from the Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville, Texas, 1 and sentenced to thirteen months’ confinement, the sentence to run consecutively to the sentence he was serving under a previous conviction for a violation of the Dyer Act. 2 He claims that he has been subjected to double jeopardy under the Fifth Amendment because he had already administratively lost “good time” deductions from the term of the earlier sentence. Williamson further complains that the district court erred in refusing to consider his § 2255 motion asserting that the…