Grady Boutwell v. Eddie Nagle and the Attorney General of the State of Alabama

HILL, Circuit Judge:

In this habeas corpus proceeding, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama adopted and approved a magistrate’s finding that Grady Boutwell is not entitled to credit for thirty-one months spent in custody in the State of Washington prior to his extradition to Alabama. We affirm the district court’s denial of Boutwell’s petition.

In 1965, an Alabama court convicted petitioner Boutwell of second degree murder and sentenced him to thirty years of imprisonment. Boutwell escaped from an Alabama prison in February, 1975, but was recaptured several…