Cross v. Department of Corrections

*412T. M. Burns, P.J.

In 1977, at a time when he was serving a sentence for bank robbery in a Federal corrections facility, plaintiff Lemuel Cross was convicted of armed robbery by a Michigan court. On April 8, 1977, he was sentenced to a term of 6 to 20 years for the Michigan conviction. In imposing sentence, the judge stated:

"I’m writing the State prison authorities and I will check, counsel, possibly we’ll have to write the Federal authorities. We’ll check into that. I’ll write to the State prison authorities that it is the intention of this Court that this sentence run concurrent with the…