Opinion ID: 399485
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Heading: Institutional Adjustment

Text: 11 Staege's third argument is that the Parole Commission should have considered his institutional adjustment as a major factor in its decision on his parole status. The case which Staege uses to support his argument, Hayward v. United States Parole Commission, 502 F.Supp. 1007 (D.Minn.1980), was reversed by this Court, 659 F.2d 857 (8th Cir. 1981) (parole denial sustained despite lack of specific reference to institutional adjustment). Also, whereas in Hayward the Parole Commission's decision exceeded the guidelines, here the Parole Commission acted within the guidelines as reasonably interpreted, and the guidelines were specifically formulated to apply to cases with good institutional adjustment and program progress. 28 C.F.R. § 2.20(b). 12 Staege also contends the Parole Commission should have considered the state sentencing judge's alleged intent to have Staege's state and remaining federal sentences run concurrently. Even if such intent could be demonstrated, the Supreme Court held in United States v. Addonizio, 442 U.S. 178, 190, 99 S.Ct. 2235, 2243, 60 L.Ed.2d 805 (1979), that a sentencing court has no enforceable expectations with respect to the actual release of a sentenced defendant short of his statutory term. 13 With respect to concurrency, Staege also complains that he was not given enough credit for his time spent in state custody. As the government's brief explains, there is a distinction between the credit given in applying the reparole guidelines and the credit given in calculating the extent of the violator term (i.e., the balance of the defendant's federal sentence). Staege has been given full credit for his state sentence for reparole-guideline purposes pursuant to 28 C.F.R. § 2.21(b)(3), and in calculating his violator term, the Parole Commission has given him full credit less 18 months, pursuant to 28 C.F.R. § 2.47(c)(2). Thus this complaint is groundless.