BISHOP v. RENO

No. 98-4109.

210 F.3d 1295 (2000)

William BISHOP, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Janet RENO, U.S. Attorney General, Director of the United States Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Bureau of Prisons, Warden, Dade County Jail, Federal Detention Center, Miami, U.S. Parole, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 24, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anne R. Schultz, Paul M. Rashkind, Asst. Fed. Pub. Defender, Miami, FL, for Respondents-Appellants.

Before EDMONDSON and BIRCH, Circuit Judges, and OWENS, Senior District Judge.


BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to determine whether a district court has subject matter jurisdiction to entertain habeas corpus relief for a foreign sentence of a United States citizen, who is serving the foreign sentence in the United States pursuant to treaty transfer. The district judge granted habeas relief and reduced the foreign sentence. We reverse and remand for dismissal.

I. BACKGROUND

In July, 1995, petitioner-appellee and...

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