United States v. Samuel L. Eakman, Jr.

OPINION OF THE COURT

SHADUR, District Judge.

Federal prisoner Samuel L. Eakman (“Eakman”) appeals from the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 2 motion that seeks the vacation or amendment of his prison sentence. Eakman claims that his current sentence is constitutionally invalid because the district judge relied on a mistaken understanding of the law in believing that the Bureau of Prisons (“Bureau”) had the discretion to place him in a community corrections center (also known as a “halfway-house”), when in fact the Bureau lacked such authority under the law. 3 On the record before…