Lewis Thomas v. Patrick Whalen

OPINION

LUTTIG, Circuit Judge:

Appellant, warden of the federal penitentiary in Petersburg, Virginia, challenges a district court order granting appellee’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The district court granted the writ based upon its determination that appellee was entitled to fifteen years of credit against his federal sentences for time served in state confinement on unrelated state offenses. We conclude, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3568, that appellee’s federal sentences did not commence until he was received at the federal penitentiary for service of those sentences and that appellee…