Opinion ID: 217413
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Termination of State Sentence

Text: As previously noted, Defendant was sentenced by the state court on September 27, 2004, to 18 months’ incarceration, less 125 days’ credit for presentence custody. That sentence would have expired on November 23, 2005. Nevertheless, Defendant argued in federal district court that his state sentence terminated on April 12, 2005. He noted (1) that the initial presentence report (PSR) for his federal convictions had said that his state sentence ended on April 12 and (2) that the BOP also had at first agreed with him. Defendant’s explanation for the April termination date was that his 18-month sentence had been corrected to a 12-month sentence because the value of the stolen item justified only a 12-month sentence. “In order to correct the error by the Court,” he stated, “[Defendant] was credit[ed] with his jail time credit of four months, and required to only serve 8 months, which accounts for the expiration of his sentence on April 12, 2005,” the date that he was transferred to federal custody through a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum. R. at 28–29. The district court, however, found no evidence beyond the Defendant’s assertions that his state sentence was modified after his conviction or that it expired on April 12, 2005. The record contains only a single state document, an Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction sentence computation, that sets -7- out Defendant’s date of release from the state sentence, and it states that his sentence was expected to expire on November 23, 2005. The state-court docket does not indicate that the court ever modified his sentence; on the contrary, it shows that the court denied Defendant’s motions to modify the sentence and to compel modification of the sentence. And Defendant admits that the BOP contacted Ohio officials by telephone and was informed that the sentence had not expired until November 23. Although April 12, 2005, was the date that the United States obtained custody of Defendant through a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum, the use of the writ does not show that state custody ended on that day. See Binford v. United States, 436 F.3d 1252, 1255–56 (10th Cir. 2006) (use of ad prosequendum writ by federal government does not establish beginning of federal custody). Rather, it indicates that the United States was acknowledging that the state still had custody over him. See Weekes, 301 F.3d at 1181. Thus, the district court did not clearly err in finding that Defendant’s state sentence expired on November 23, 2005, and that the April 12 date in the PSR was erroneous.