SANCHEZ v. RIGGSBY

No. 76-2358.

556 F.2d 1310 (1977)

Danny Eloy SANCHEZ, Petitioner-Appellant, v. J. D. RIGGSBY, Warden, et al., Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 16, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lonnie Hank Robin, Fort Worth, Tex. (Court-appointed), for petitioner-appellant.

John E. Clark, U. S. Atty., LeRoy Morgan Jahn, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., Michael T. Milligan, Asst. U. S. Atty., El Paso, Tex., for respondents-appellees.

Before GODBOLD, TJOFLAT and HILL, Circuit Judges.


JAMES C. HILL, Circuit Judge:

This appeal raises the question whether a federal parolee imprisoned for a crime committed while on parole is entitled to a prompt parole revocation hearing when the district court which imposed the intervening sentence directed that it was to run "concurrently with any federal sentence which the defendant is presently serving."

I. The Facts.

On September 11, 1973, the...

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