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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
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* After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel has determined

unanimously that oral argument would not materially assist the determination of

this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2); 10th Cir. R. 34.1(G). The case is

therefore ordered submitted without oral argument. This order and judgment is

not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata,

and collateral estoppel. It may be cited, however, for its persuasive value

consistent with Fed. R. App. P. 32.1 and 10th Cir. R. 32.1. 

FILED

United States Court of Appeals

Tenth Circuit

January 29, 2008

Elisabeth A. Shumaker

Clerk of Court

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

ROGER LEE REED,

Petitioner-Appellant,

v.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Respondent-Appellee.

No. 07-3252

(D.C. No. 05-CR-10156-MLB)

(D. Kan.)

ORDER AND JUDGMENT*

Before KELLY, McKAY, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

Roger Lee Reed, a federal prisoner proceeding pro se, appeals from the

district court’s orders denying his petitions for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. In

his petitions, Mr. Reed sought credit against his federal sentence for time served

in state custody, which, he asserted, was due solely to a federal detainer. Because

the Attorney General, through the Bureau of Prisons, must first compute credit for

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1 Although the record transmitted to this court by the district court clerk does

not contain Mr. Reed’s first petition or the district court’s order denying that

petition, we take judicial notice of those documents. See Binford v. United States,

436 F.3d 1252, 1256 n.7 (10th Cir. 2006).

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time served under 18 U.S.C. § 3585(b), we vacate the district court’s orders and

remand with instructions to dismiss Mr. Reed’s petitions without prejudice for

lack of jurisdiction.

I.

Although some of the following procedural facts are not otherwise evident

from the record provided to us, Mr. Reed has not challenged the summary set out

in the district court’s July 26, 2007, order denying his first § 2241 petition. See

R., doc. 45.1

 Accordingly, we rely on the district court’s summary.

On August 5, 2005, Mr. Reed was arrested and subsequently charged with

an unspecified offense in the District Court of Sedgwick County, Kansas, in Case

No. 05-CR2101. He was also held on a parole violation in another state matter,

Case No. 04-CR2647. He remained in continuous state custody until March 17,

2006, when his probation in Case No. 04-CR2647 was revoked, and he was

sentenced to serve the remainder of the original forty-month term in that case. 

He also was sentenced to seventeen months’ custody in Case No. 05-CR2101, to

run consecutively to the sentence in Case No. 04-CR2647.

Meanwhile, on August 23, 2005, Mr. Reed was indicted in the United

States District Court for the District of Kansas for a violation of 18 U.S.C.

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§ 922(g) as a felon in possession of a firearm. On February 17, 2006, a writ of

habeas corpus ad prosequendum was filed pursuant to which Mr. Reed was

delivered into federal custody on March 31, 2006. He pleaded guilty to the

federal charge on August 15 and was sentenced on November 6 to thirty-six

months’ custody, to run consecutively to the state sentences. He was returned to

state custody on November 11, 2006.

On May 31, 2007, apparently at the conclusion of his state sentences,

Mr. Reed was delivered back to federal custody to await designation by the

Bureau of Prisons (BOP). On July 16, Mr. Reed filed his first § 2241 petition,

arguing that because he was held in state custody and denied bail solely because

of a federal detainer, he was entitled to credit toward his federal sentence under

18 U.S.C. § 3585(b) for all the time he spent in custody since August 5, 2005.

The district court denied the first petition, finding that the BOP had

acknowledged, upon inquiry by Mr. Reed’s probation officer, that Mr. Reed

likely would get credit under § 3585(b) for time served from March 31, 2006,

through November 11, 2006, and again for time in federal custody commencing

on May 31, 2007, while he was awaiting designation. Based on this finding, the

court ruled that “[i]t seems” that Mr. Reed would get credit for some of the time

spent in federal detention, but that if he did not, he could “take the matter up with

the [BOP].” R., doc. 45 at 3.

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On August 10, 2007, Mr. Reed filed his second § 2241 petition, in which

he essentially reiterated the arguments made in his first petition. The district

court treated the second petition as both a motion for reconsideration and a

request that the court order the BOP to give him the credit he requested. The

court denied the second petition without discussion on August 14, 2007, and

Mr. Reed appealed.

II. 

We review de novo the denial of Mr. Reed’s § 2241 petitions. See Martin

v. Rios, 472 F.3d 1206, 1207 (10th Cir. 2007). We construe Mr. Reed’s pro se

filings liberally. See Hall v. Bellmon, 935 F.2d 1106, 1110 (10th Cir. 1991).

As relevant here, 18 U.S.C. § 3585(b) provides that “[a] defendant shall be

given credit toward the service of a term of imprisonment for any time he has

spent in official detention prior to the date the sentence commences . . . that has

not been credited against another sentence.” The BOP has long been responsible

for computing sentencing credit under § 3585(b) and its predecessor, 18 U.S.C.

§ 3568 (repealed 1987), and that calculation occurs when the BOP imprisons a

defendant. See United States v. Wilson, 503 U.S. 329, 334-35 (1992). Under

Wilson, “only the Attorney General through the Bureau of Prisons has the power

to grant sentence credit in the first instance.” United States v. Jenkins, 38 F.3d

1143, 1144 (10th Cir. 1994). Until the Attorney General, through the BOP,

makes a § 3585(b) determination, the matter is not ripe for district court review,

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and the district court lacks jurisdiction. See id.; United States v. Westmoreland,

974 F.2d 736, 737-38 (6th Cir. 1992).

It is clear that at the time Mr. Reed filed his petitions, the BOP had not

made a sentencing-credit determination. Mr. Reed must first permit the BOP to

compute any sentencing credit. If he is dissatisfied with the result, he may seek

judicial review after exhausting administrative remedies. See Williams v.

O’Brien, 792 F.2d 986, 987 (10th Cir. 1986) (per curiam) (analyzing exhaustion

requirement under statutory predecessor of § 3585(b)); 28 C.F.R. §§ 542.10 to

542.19 (setting forth the BOP’s Administrative Remedy Program).

Accordingly, we VACATE the district court’s orders of July 26, 2007, and

August 14, 2007, and REMAND the case with instructions to dismiss Mr. Reed’s

petitions without prejudice for lack of jurisdiction.

Entered for the Court

Paul J. Kelly, Jr.

Circuit Judge

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