Taylor v. Sawyer

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• \[T]he BOP does not need to abide by a state's express desire to have its sentence run concurrent to a previously imposed federal sentence.\
• “[T]he BOP does not need to abide by a state’s express desire to have its sentence run concurrent to a previously imposed federal sentence.”
• “Based on the plain language of the statute, ... district courts cannot order a sentence to run ... consecutively to a nonexistent term....”
• if the federal judge orders its sentence to run consecutively to the state sentence, the BOP is obligated to decline a prisoner’s request for nunc pro tunc designation
• “[C]oncurrent sentences imposed by state judges are nothing more than recommendations to federal officials.”
• “Based on the plain language of the statute, . . . district courts cannot order a sentence to run . . . consecutively to a non-existent term. . . . ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).