Bender v. United States Parole Commission

EDWARD C. PRADO, Circuit Judge:

Anthony Bender, a U.S. citizen, was convicted in a Costa Rican tribunal of three counts of rape and sentenced to thirty years in prison. Pursuant to a treaty, Bender was transferred to serve his time in an American federal prison. Bender appeals the United States Parole Commission’s release-date determination. He argues his sentence is unlawful because it is in excess of the statutory maximum, im-permissibly indeterminate, and procedurally and substantively unreasonable. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

In 2006, Bender was convicted of three counts of rape and sentenced…