Gonzalez Vargas, Juan v. Econo Caribe

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• holding that a sentencing court may not calculate credit for time already spent in custody, as that task belongs to the Attorney General
• holding that “it is the Attorney General who computes the amount of the credit” under 18 U.S.C. § 3585(b)
• holding that defense counsel correctly \acknowledged in the district court that the issue of time served was to be addressed by the Attorney General through the Bureau of Prisons\
• recognizing that the Attorney General, through the BOP, is responsible for computing the amount of sentencing credit a prisoner is to receive by statute
• holding that under § 3585(b) the BOP has the responsibility of computing the amount of credit a defendant receives after defendant begins serving a sentence
• holding that it is the BOP’s obligation, not the court’s, to compute and apply sentencing credits

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