Legal Opinion
Guillermo Hoyte-Mesa v. John Ashcroft
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 3, 2001No. 01-1726PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Per curiam
Guillermo Hoyte-Mesa, an excludable alien and citizen of Cuba, has been detained by the INS in federal prison since March 1996 pending deportation. Hoyte filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, challenging his detention on the grounds that it violates his due process rights and amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. The district court denied his petition and we affirm.
Hoyte arrived in the United States in May 1980 during the Mariel boatlift from Cuba, and in August he was paroled into the United States. While released on parole, Hoyte, armed with a knife,…
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