Maleng v. Cook

How courts have described this case

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• holding that petitioner is not “in custody” under a conviction after the sentence has expired just because the prior conviction is used to enhance a subsequent sentence
• holding that once a sentence has been served, the petitioner is not “in custody” for purposes of attacking that conviction in a habeas petition
• concluding that a petitioner whose sentence “has completely expired” is no longer “in custody” under that sentence
• holding that a prisoner whose sentence has expired is no longer “in custody” for purposes of § 2254
• holding that a person is not “in custody” under a conviction after the sentence imposed for it has fully expired
• holding that custody does not attach if the petition is brought when the sentence is fully expired

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).