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Parties Involved:
Antonio Gonzalez-Radiya
Defendant
United States of America
Plaintiff

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Antonio Gonzalez-Radiya,

Petitioner, 

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United States of America,

Respondent.

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CASE NO. 06-CV-187-TUC-FRZ

 04-CR-254-TUC-FRZ

ORDER

Petitioner has filed a “Motion for Time Reduction by an Inmate in Federal Custody,

(28 U.S.C. § 2255).”

Rule 4(b) of the Rules Governing Section 2255 Proceedings for the United States

District Courts provides, in relevant part, that

[i]f it plainly appears from the motion, any attached exhibits,

and the record of prior proceedings that the moving party is not

entitled to relief, the judge must dismiss the motion and direct

the clerk to notify the moving party.

28 U.S.C. foll. § 2255.

Background

Petitioner entered a plea of guilty to the Indictment, which charged him with entering

and being found in the United States after having been denied admission, excluded, deported,

and removed from the United States, and not having obtained the express consent of the

Attorney General or the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to reapply for

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admission to the United States, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326, enhanced by 8 U.S.C.

§ 1326(b)(2).

The Presentence Report calculated Petitioner as having a Total Offense Level 21 and

a Criminal History Category V. The Court departed two levels pursuant to § 5K2.0 of the

United States Sentencing Guidelines, based on the savings to the government. The Court

imposed a sentence of fifty-seven months.

Discussion

In his motion, Petitioner seeks a reduction of his sentence. He contends that his right

to equal protection is violated by the fact that deportable alien prisoners, unlike their United

States citizen counterparts, are ineligible for a one-year sentence reduction for attending a

drug treatment program during incarceration and for early release to a half-way house. 

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Petitioner’s argument in McLean v.

Crabtree, 173 F.3d 1176 (9th Cir. 1999). In that case, the Ninth Circuit found that there was

no equal protection violation and held that “excluding prisoners with detainers from

participating in community-based treatment programs, and consequently from sentence

reduction eligibility, is at least rationally related to the BOP’s legitimate interest in

preventing prisoners from fleeing detainers while participating in community treatment

programs.” Id. at 1186. 

Conclusion

Accordingly,

IT IS ORDERED that Petitioner’s § 2255 Motion (U.S.D.C. document #35 in

CR-04-254-TUC-FRZ) is DENIED and this case (CV-06-187-TUC-FRZ) is DISMISSED.

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IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court SHALL SERVE a copy

of the Motion and this Order on Respondent and SHALL SERVE a copy of this Order on

Petitioner.

DATED this 20th day of April, 2006.

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