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Ninth Circuit· 3/28/2002

Taylor v. Sawyer

Citations

  • 284 F.3d 1143
  • 2002 WL 465725

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that BOP was under no obligation to follow a state sentence that was ordered to run concurrently with a pre-existing federal sentence where the federal sentencing judge expressed that concurrent sentences would not be consistent with the goals of the criminal justice system
  • explaining that, as to the dual sovereignty principle, issues of federal supremacy are inapplicable, and vis-a-vis a state jurisdiction, the United States Government occupies the role of an equal sovereign, just as another state jurisdiction would
  • reviewing a claim that BOP failed to make a state sen- tence properly concurrent to a federal sentence under § 2241 even though prisoner alleged BOP’s actions violated the Constitution
  • adopting the reasoning of Judge Norris’s concurrence in Del Guzzi v. United States, 980 F.2d 1269, 1272-73 (9th Cir. 1992), that “concurrent sentences imposed by state judges are nothing more than recommendations to federal officials”
  • “[CJoncurrent 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. . . . ”

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Judges: Gould, Hug, Nelson

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