Legal Opinion
Scroger v. Booker
District Court, D. Kansas
Decided February 10, 1999No. 98-3260-RDRPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
ROGERS, District Judge.
This is a petition for writ of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. § 2241, filed by an inmate of the Federal Prison Camp, Leavenworth, Kansas. The issue to be resolved is whether a prisoner convicted of a nonviolent drug offense, whose sentence was enhanced for possession of a firearm, was legally deemed by the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to be ineligible to receive the sentence reduction made available under 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e)(2)(B) to prisoners convicted of “nonviolent offenses.”
An Order to Show Cause issued. Respondents filed an Answer and Return, and…
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