Woody v. Marberry

OPINION

R. GUY COLE, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Pro se Petitioner-Appellant Thomas Franklin Woody filed a habeas petition in the judicial district in which he was incarcerated pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. The district court determined that, while a portion of Woody’s petition properly sought relief under § 2241, Woody raised claims that should have been brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. The district court concluded that 1) relief under § 2241 was improper because the Bureau of Prisons did not err in calculating Woody’s sentence and that Woody had not shown that the remedy under § 2255 was inadequate…