BOYCE v. ASHCROFT

No. 98-1280.

251 F.3d 911 (2001)

Christopher John BOYCE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General of the United States; John Hurley, Warden, U.S. Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Security, Florence, Colorado, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

June 4, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam S. Sheldon, La Jolla, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Kathleen L. Torres, Assistant United States Attorney (Thomas L. Strickland, United States Attorney, with her on the brief), Denver, CO, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before EBEL and LUCERO, Circuit Judges, and VRATIL, District Judge.


VRATIL, District Judge.

Petitioner-appellant Christopher John Boyce, a federal prisoner, seeks a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, ordering defendants to transfer him to the federal prison in Sheridan, Oregon. Petitioner asserts that defendants transferred him from a state prison in Minnesota to the ultra-maximum federal penitentiary in Florence, Colorado in retaliation for his exercise of First Amendment rights, and that conditions at Florence violate...

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