Legal Opinion
Victor M. Roussos v. Frederick Menifee, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided July 18, 1997No. 97-7011PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BECKER, Circuit Judge.
OPINION OF THE COURT
Victor M. Roussos is a federal prison inmate serving a term for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, 21 U.S.C. § 846. He appeals from an order of the district court denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. § 2241. Roussos completed a rigorous 500 hour Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) drug treatment program which he believed made him eligible for early release. The BOP, however, ruled him ineli gible because one of the arresting officers found a gun in his vacation home, and the sentencing court enhanced Roussos’…
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