Johnny Horton Weekes v. L.E. Fleming, Warden

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where prisoner was taken into federal custody, designated to serve term of imprisonment at a particular facility, and transported to that facility, federal sentence began to run regardless of fact that federal officials had custody erroneously
• stating that a state may choose \to relinquish or transfer its primary custody to the United States\
• stating that a state may choose \to relinquish or transfer its primary custody to the United States\
• noting that the use of an ad prosequendum writ to gain custody indicates the sovereign gaining custody is merely borrowing the prisoner from the sovereign with primary custody
• recounting that petitioner “was returned to federal custody” where he pleaded guilty and was then “transferred to the federal penitentiary . . . to begin serving his federal sentence”
• emphasizing that the opinion “does not mandate how consecutive sentences are served”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).