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Federal Prisoner Must Exhaust BOP Remedies Before Seeking Habeas Corpus Relief
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1992, page 7
Federal prisoner Ivan Gonzalez was convicted of possession with intent to distribute three kilograms of cocaine. He was sentenced to five years of imprisonment. The U.S. Parole Commission calculated a presumptive parole date of May 30, 1990. When that date came and went the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) did not …
Filed under:
Administrative Exhaustion,
Sentencing,
Good Time,
Habeas Corpus,
Wrongful Imprisonment.
Location:
Florida.
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