Legal Opinion

Eric Wayne Dotson v. Warden, FCI Pekin

District Court, C.D. Illinois

Decided September 14, 2026No. 1:26-cv-01004Unknown

1Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS PEORIA DIVISION ERIC WAYNE DOTSON, ) ) Petitioner, ) ) v. ) Case No. 1:26-cv-1004-SLD ) WARDEN, FCI PEKIN, ) ) Respondent. ) OPINION Before the Court is Petitioner Eric Wayne Dotson’s Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. (Doc. 1). Dotson alleges the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is wrongly denying him nunc pro tunc designation or otherwise failing to give him credit towards his federal sentence for the fifteen years he spent in the Georgia Department of Corrections. Because he has raised this argument in…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Moody v. DaggettSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  2. Setser v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2012
  3. Pope v. PerdueCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2018
  4. Enaam Arnaout v. Helen J. MarberryCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2009
  5. Eric Dotson v. Gregory KizziahCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2020

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