[DOWNLOAD] "Zerbst v. Kidwell" by Fifth Circuit Circuit Court Of Appeals # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Zerbst v. Kidwell
- Author : Fifth Circuit Circuit Court Of Appeals
- Release Date : January 10, 1937
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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These eight cases were argued and submitted together, present the same questions for decision, and may be conveniently disposed of by one opinion. The material facts common to all the cases are these. Appellees, while serving sentences in federal prisons, were released on parole or by reduction of their sentences for good conduct. Before the maximum terms of their sentences had expired they committed federal offenses for which they were convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in the Atlanta penitentiary. The judgments were silent as to the time these second sentences were to begin. In each case, after the prisoner was incarcerated under the second sentence, a member of the Parole Board issued a warrant, directed to any federal officer authorized to serve criminal processes within the United States, reciting that satisfactory evidence had been presented to him that (the person named) had violated the condition of his release, was deemed to be a fugitive from justice, and commanding that the warrant be executed by taking the prisoner, wherever found in the United States, and returning him safely to the institution hereinafter designated. However, the warrant did not designate the institution. The warrants were sent to the warden of the Atlanta penitentiary with a letter instructing him to place the warrant as a detainer and to take the prisoner named into custody on the warrant at the expiration of his present sentence. The letter further instructed that the case should be listed for a hearing on the violation charge only after (the person named) is in custody on the warrant. The warrants were served and appellees were detained as instructed. Appellees were released on habeas corpus after each had served more time in the penitentiary after his return thereto than the remainder of his first sentence, without deducting any allowance for good conduct or the time he was at large on parole or conditional release before being returned to serve the second sentence.