Cherry v. Wilson, No. 3:2013cv00527 - Document 14 (E.D. Va. 2014)

Court Description: MEMORANDUM OPINION. Signed by District Judge Robert E. Payne on 7/25/2014. Copies as directed to Cherry and counsel for Respondent.(cmcc, )

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0 L IN THE UNITED FOR THE 'JU.2 8 STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA Richmond Division CLERK. U.S. DISTfliCT COUR1 RICHMOND. VA GREGORY CHERRY, Petitioner, Civil Action No. v. ERIC D. 3:13CV527 WILSON, Respondent. MEMORANDUM OPINION Gregory Cherry, this petition ECF No. 1). ("BOP") a pursuant to 28 inmate proceeding pro se, u.S.C. Cherry contends that, § 2241 ("§ 2241 brings Petition," because the Bureau of Prisons had incorrectly classified his twenty-year sentence as a sentence under the ("VCCLEA"), Reform Act ("SRA") Violent rather good federal conduct than Crime as at the time a Control and sentence time when ("GCT"), Law under Enforcement the it disallowed those sanctions Act Sentencing 135 days are of void. Specifically, Cherry asserts:1 Claim One B.O.P. has failed to correctly compute statutory good time days. Records show my 25-year sentence was imposed on September 16, 1998, with continuous credit applied since my March 30, 1993 arrest. The date upon which federal the federal offense was courts deems a committed determines the sentencing provision impose sanctions under. the B.O.P. As such, I 1 The Court has corrected the capitalization and spacing in the quotations to Cherry's claims.

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