Paul J. Hernandez v. United States Attorney General, and United States Bureau of Prisons

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• noting that sovereign with prior jurisdiction and custody may waive rights and allow another sovereign to proceed with execution of its sentence
• temporary transfer of custody from state to federal government pursuant to a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequen- dum did not relinquish state’s jurisdiction
• “Whether jurisdiction and custody of a prisoner shall be retained or surrendered is a matter of comity and is to be determined by the sovereign having custody.”
• “Whether jurisdiction and custody of a prisoner shall be retained or surrendered is a matter of comity and is to be determined by the sovereign having custody.”
• when state officials temporarily transferred custody over a prisoner for federal proceedings pursuant to a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum, they “did not relinquish jurisdiction” over the prisoner and “he continued to be a ‘state prisoner.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).