Manuel v. Terris

In 2010 Manuel was sentenced to two concurrent terms of 51 months in federal prison, with “credit for not less than all the time he has spent in federal custody” since May 24, 2010. That was the date on which, having been arrested earlier in the year by Michigan law enforcement for a parole violation, Manuel was ordered transferred from state to federal custody. After his Michigan parole was revoked, Manual was returned to that state’s custody, from which he was released on May 4, 2013, and transferred to a federal prison to serve his 51-month federal prison term. In calculating the date of his release from federal prison, the Bureau of Prisons had decided that Manuel was entitled to receive credit toward completion of his federal sentence for the five months from May 24 to October 27, 2010, that he had spent in federal custody. The district court and Seventh Circuit rejected his habeas petition, with his argument that he should have received credit for May 24, 2010 to May 4, 2013, the date of his release from Michigan’s custody. View "Manuel v. Terris" on Justia Law