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No Credit for Time Served on Wrongful Conviction
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1999, page 19
The Fifth Circuit court of appeals has held that a federal prisoner is not entitled to credit toward the supervised release portion of other consecutive sentences for time served in prison due to a wrongful conviction. Larry Jeanes, a former federal prisoner now on supervised release, pled guilty to possession ...
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