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GILSTRAP v. CLEMMER

No. 8194.

284 F.2d 804 (1960)

James M. GILSTRAP, Appellant, v. Donald CLEMMER et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 17, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander Wellford (Court-assigned counsel), Richmond, Va., for appellant.

Harvey B. Cohen, Asst. U. S. Atty., Arlington, Va. (Joseph S. Bambacus, U. S. Atty., Richmond, Va., on the brief), for appellees.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and SOPER and BOREMAN, Circuit Judges.

BOREMAN, Circuit Judge.

James M. Gilstrap appeals from an order of the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia of June 28, 1960, dismissing his habeas corpus petition wherein he sought release from the District of Columbia Reformatory at Lorton, Virginia. The question here presented is whether deduction from sentence for good conduct of a prisoner convicted of a violation of a District of Columbia criminal statute and recommitted to a District of Columbia...

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