EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Statutes that impose stiff penalties on habitual offenders give new weight to old convictions. Because custody directly under these old convictions has ended, 28 U.S.C. § 2254 does not authorize a petition for a writ of habeas corpus seeking release; you can't be released from a sentence that expired by its own terms. Maleng v. Cook, ___ U.S. ___, 109 S.Ct. 1923, 104 L.Ed.2d 540 (1989). Yet the validity of the earlier convictions...
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