Legal Opinion

Copeland v. Matthews

District Court, D. Kansas

Decided June 24, 1991No. 89-3100-RPublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

ORDER

ROGERS, District Judge.

This matter is before the court on a petition for writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. Petitioner, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, is serving an aggregated sentence of 15-to-45 years imposed by the Superior Court for the District of Columbia in 1979. Petitioner was committed to the custody of the United States Attorney General in July 1979 and was assigned to serve his sentence in a federal penitentiary. While incarcerated in the federal prison system, petitioner earns statutory good time pursuant to 18 U.S.C.…

2Cases cited9 opinions

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Plyler v. DoeSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
McGinnis v. RoysterSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
Moss v. ClarkCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1989

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3Cited by1 opinion

Crump v. KansasDistrict Court, D. Kansas · 2001