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Sutton v. Johnson

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
Dec 21, 2017
No. 17-55112 (9th Cir. Dec. 21, 2017)

Opinion

No. 17-55112

12-21-2017

FREDERICK SUTTON, Appellant, v. CALVIN JOHNSON, Appellee.


NOT FOR PUBLICATION

D.C. No. 5:16-cv-00532-FMO MEMORANDUM Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California
Fernando M. Olguin, District Judge, Presiding Before: WALLACE, SILVERMAN, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.

Federal prisoner Frederick Sutton appeals pro se from the district court's judgment denying his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 habeas petition. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo a district court's denial of a section 2241 habeas petition, see Reynolds v. Thomas, 603 F.3d 1144, 1148 (9th Cir. 2010), abrogated on other grounds by Setser v. United States, 566 U.S. 231 (2012). We affirm.

Sutton argues that he is entitled to credit toward his federal sentence for the time spent in custody between January 5, 2009, and November 24, 2009. We disagree. Under 18 U.S.C. § 3585(b), a defendant cannot receive "double credit" - that is, credit going towards two separate sentences - for time spent in presentence custody. See United States v. Wilson, 503 U.S. 329, 337 (1992). Here, Sutton spent 317 days in presentence custody. Because the record reflects that the state of Michigan credited this time towards a prior Michigan state sentence, he is not entitled to credit this 317-day period towards his federal sentence. See 18 U.S.C. § 3585(b).

AFFIRMED.


Summaries of

Sutton v. Johnson

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
Dec 21, 2017
No. 17-55112 (9th Cir. Dec. 21, 2017)
Case details for

Sutton v. Johnson

Case Details

Full title:FREDERICK SUTTON, Appellant, v. CALVIN JOHNSON, Appellee.

Court:UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

Date published: Dec 21, 2017

Citations

No. 17-55112 (9th Cir. Dec. 21, 2017)

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