Legal Opinion
Carl E. Cook v. Jack A. Hanberry, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 11, 1979No. 78-2538PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Per curiam
For purposes of clarification, our prior opinion dated March 29, 1979 is revised as follows:
A federal prisoner currently serving sentences for bank robbery and assaulting- a fellow inmate with a deadly weapon, Cook filed a pro se petition, styled under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, seeking his release or a transfer from the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary where he was then incarcerated to a facility on the West Coast where he had previously been confined. He has since been moved to Lompoc Federal Correctional Institute in California.
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