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Eighth Circuit: Federal Sentence Consecutive to Later-Imposed State Sentence

Loaded on April 15, 2014 by Mark Wilson published in Prison Legal News April, 2014, page 47
Filed under: Sentencing. Location: Iowa.

On June 6, 2013, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a prisoner was not entitled to credit toward his federal sentence for time already served on state charges.

In March 2007, Charles Lee Elwell was arrested in Iowa. A federal indictment was issued against him several days …

 

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