Legal Opinion
Ray v. United States
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided May 18, 1971No. Civ. A. 15090PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIDNEY 0. SMITH, Jr., Chief Judge.
This is a petition for a writ of mandamus from a federal prisoner confined at the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta. Petitioner seeks to compel respondent to credit his federal sentence with 178 days spent in state custody.
In support of his petition, petitioner alleges that he received a five year sentence on April 7, 1966, for uttering counterfeit postal money orders. On November 1, 1970, while free on parole from this sentence, he was arrested in New York on a state charge and confined in the Queens House of Detention. On either the eighth or ninth of…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Tony Willis v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- Word v. North CarolinaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1969
- Ernest C. Davis v. Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
- Robert Gilbert May v. State of GeorglaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- Harry Boyd, Jr. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Michael J. O'COnnOr v. Attorney General of the United States and J. D. Henderson, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
- Burnett v. United States Board of ParoleCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
- McCune v. United StatesDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1974
- Jimmie v. Burnett v. United States Board of Parole, No. 73-3135 Summary Calendar. Rule 18, 5th Cir. See Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. Of New York, 5th Cir. 1970, 431 F.2d 409Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974