Nathaniel Green v. Juan Castillo

MELLOY, Circuit Judge.

Federal inmate Nathaniel Green appeals the district court’s 1 denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition challenging the United States Parole Commission’s (the “Commission”) denial of early release pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4206(d). We affirm the judgment of the district court.

In 1980, at age twenty-four, Nathaniel Green kidnaped a seventeen-year-old woman and stabbed her seventeen times. One stab wound fatally severed her jugular vein. Green transported her across state lines and stripped her clothes from her body. He fled, but was captured, tried, and convicted of kidnaping…