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No Good Time for Time Spent in State Custody before Imposition of Federal Sentence

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2012 published in Prison Legal News August, 2012, page 43
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time. Location: Oregon.
Good conduct time (GCT) may not be awarded to a federal prisoner for time spent in state custody before receiving his federal sentence, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has held.

Russell Schleining was arrested in 2003 for burglary and attempted burglary. At the time of his ...

 

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