Case Name: Larry Blaine PAINTER, Appellant, v. T.C. OUTLAW, Warden, Federal Correctional Complex, Forrest City, Arkansas, Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2009-08-18
Citations: 334 F. App'x 47
Docket Number: No. 08-1937
Parties: Larry Blaine PAINTER, Appellant, v. T.C. OUTLAW, Warden, Federal Correctional Complex, Forrest City, Arkansas, Appellee.
Judges: Before WOLLMAN, RILEY, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 334
Pages: 47–48

Head Matter:
Larry Blaine PAINTER, Appellant, v. T.C. OUTLAW, Warden, Federal Correctional Complex, Forrest City, Arkansas, Appellee.
No. 08-1937.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted: July 30, 2009.
Filed: Aug. 18, 2009.
Larry Blaine Painter, Forrest City, AR, pro se.
Earl Fletcher Jackson, Eastern District of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR, for Appellee.
Before WOLLMAN, RILEY, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Federal inmate Larry Painter appeals the district court's dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition challenging a 1981 Missouri escape conviction, which was used to enhance the federal sentence he is currently serving for firearm-possession offenses. The district court correctly found that it was without jurisdiction to consider the petition, as Painter is no longer "in custody" on the state conviction. See Maleng v. Cook, 490 U.S. 488, 492-93, 109 S.Ct. 1923, 104 L.Ed.2d 540 (1989) (per curiam) (habeas petitioner is no longer in custody after sentence has fully expired, even if prior conviction is used to enhance subsequent conviction); Love v. Tippy, 128 F.3d 1258, 1258-59 (8th Cir.1997) (per curiam) (petitioner who completed serving state sentence before federal conviction is no longer in custody under state conviction).
Accordingly, the judgment is affirmed.
. The Honorable Beth Deere, United States Magistrate Judge for die Eastern District of Arkansas, to whom the case was referred by consent of the parties pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c),