JOHNSON v. SMITH

No. 81-7660.

696 F.2d 1334 (1983)

Joseph Harold JOHNSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. William French SMITH, U.S. Attorney General, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 3, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jere W. Morehead, Asst. U.S. Atty., Atlanta, Ga., for defendants-appellants.

Stephen J. Anderson, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before KRAVITCH, HATCHETT and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from the issuance of a writ of mandamus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1361. The district court directed respondents-appellants, the Attorney General of the United States, the Director of the United States Bureau of Prisons, and the Warden of the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, to credit against petitioner-appellee's sentence time spent in a federal community treatment center [the "center"] subsequent to a conviction...

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