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Nature of Suit Code: 510
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Vacate Sentence
Cause of Action: 28:2255 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (Federal)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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UNITED STATES, 

NO. CR-S-04-0384 WBS 

Plaintiff, CV-S-06-2709 WBS 

 

 v. 

MARTIN S. MUNGUIA, ORDER

Defendant.

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Defendant Martin Munguia has filed a Motion for Time

Reduction, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255, upon the ground that,

because of the fact he is not a citizen of the United States, he

has been denied the benefit of a one year reduction of his

sentence by way of being placed in a halfway house on early

release. He argues that this deprives him of the equal

protection of the laws.

Where an immigration detainer has been placed on an

inmate, he ineligible for a sentence reduction upon completion

of that program. Here, such a detainer would be properly lodged

because Munguia was convicted of being an alien who had

unlawfully reentered the United States after a prior

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deportation.

The Ninth Circuit has held that this kind of rule

excluding prisoners with detainers from sentence reduction

eligibility does not violate the Constitution because it is

"rationally related to the BOP's legitimate interest in

preventing prisoners from fleeing detainers while participating

in community treatment programs." McLean v. Crabtree, 173, F.3d

1176, 1186 (9th Cir. 1999). Following McLean, Judge Levi denied

the petition of a prisoner making a similar claim in United

States v. Madrigal-Madrigal, 2005 WL 221930, *1 (E.D. Cal.

September 14, 2005).

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that defendant's Motion for

Time Reduction, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255, be and the same

hereby is, DENIED.

DATED: December 1, 2006

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