William D. Dunne v. Patrick W. Keohane, Warden

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• government is not permitted to delay expiration of sentence by postponing commencement of sentence or by releasing prisoner for a time and then reimprisoning him
• “The government is not permitted to play cat and mouse with the prisoner, delaying indefinitely the expiation of his debt to society and his reintegration into the free community. Punishment on the installment plan is forbidden.”
• explaining effect of release time on expiration of sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).