Opinion

George Brown, Jr. v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections, State of Florida

  • 447 F.2d 980
  • 1971 U.S. App. LEXIS 8137
Court
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Filed
Sep 10, 1971
Status
Published
On the bench
Coleman, Simpson, Morgan
Cited by
1 cases
Authority
More cited than 53.4%

The opinion

PER CURIAM:

This appeal is taken from an order of the district court denying the petition of a Florida state prisoner for the writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.

In his habeas petition appellant attacked a conviction for a “crime against nature” for which he was sentenced on November 1, 1963, to five years imprisonment. That sentence expired and he was released on August 10, 1967. Appellant is presently confined in the state penitentiary serving a life sentence for robbery imposed on November 29, 1967.

The record clearly shows that appellant, at the time he filed his petition, was not in custody under the sentence he was attacking. Appellant does not contend that there is a relationship between the present sentence and the sentence under attack. Therefore, there is no jurisdiction to attack the earlier sentence in the federal courts. 28 U.S.C. §

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2241; Diehl v. Wainwright, 5th Cir., 1970, 423 F.2d 1108 ; Cappetta v. Wainwright, 5th Cir., 1969, 406 F.2d 1238 ; United States ex rel. Collins v. Cady, E. D.Wisc., 1971, 322 F.Supp. 1168 . Cf. Carafas v. LaVallee, 1968, 391 U.S. 234 , 88 S.Ct. 1556 , 20 L.Ed.2d 554 , and Peyton v. Rowe, 1968, 391 U.S. 54 , 88 S.Ct. 1549 , 20 L.Ed.2d 426 .

Affirmed.

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