Donald Wayne Green v. Robert Christiansen, Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Lompoc, California

How courts have described this case

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• holding the estoppel theory did not apply because the prisoner had “constructive knowledge that he still had time to serve”
• granting prisoner credit for time at liberty even though governmental actions were not so egregious as to constitute gross negligence thereby allowing waiver
• granting credit despite prisoner’s knowledge that he owed time on another sentence
• refusing to estop the government from reincarcerating an erroneously released prisoner who had not been so misled as to form a reasonable expecta- tion of release, and who was therefore charged with constructive knowledge that he still had time to serve
• “A ministerial mistake does not necessarily excuse Green from serving the rest of his sentence.”
• prisoner erroneously released from state custody before serving concurrent federal sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).