Bender v. U.S. Parole Comm'n, No. 14-60656 (5th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CasePetitioner, a U.S. citizen, was convicted in a Costa Rican tribunal of three counts of rape and sentenced to thirty years in prison. Petitioner was subsequently transferred to an American federal prison. On appeal, petitioner challenged the Commission's release-date determination. The court concluded that petitioner's sentence is not illegal and rejected petitioner's claims that the sentence exceeds the statutory maximum, devalues his good time credits, and is impermissibly indeterminate. The court also concluded that the sentence is procedurally and substantively reasonable. Accordingly, the court affirmed the Commission's sentence.
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