Opinion ID: 663501
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Text: 9 Antonelli is currently in the custody of the State of Illinois facing charges of aggravated arson. On August 29, 1989, Antonelli was paroled from a number of sentences he was serving within the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Antonelli was serving federal sentences for conspiracy to commit bank fraud, possession of a destructive device, destruction of property by explosive, unlawful possession of a gun silencer, carrying a firearm during the commission of a violent felony, and illegal possession of a firearm by a felon, along with a concurrent state sentence for attempted murder. Subsequent to his release and following a preliminary and final parole revocation hearing, the United States Parole Commission (the Commission) found that Antonelli violated his parole. The Commission found three administrative violations (failure to report a change in residence, failure to report as directed, and violation of the special drug aftercare condition), and found that Antonelli failed to appear for a state criminal proceeding. In addition, the Commission specifically abstained from making any finding in regard to the charge of aggravated arson for which he was, and still is, facing prosecution in the state court. Antonelli was sentenced to sixteen months incarceration for the administrative parole violations along with a consecutive sentence of twelve months for the parole violation of failing to appear for the court proceeding. 10 The present habeas corpus petition attacks the federal sentence imposed upon the revocation of his parole. Antonelli claims that he was the object of a selective and vindictive prosecution, that the charging process used by the Commission violated the Constitutional prohibition against double jeopardy, that his presumptive release date is three days too late, and that the Commission failed to produce certain witnesses at the revocation hearing. In response, the government contends that the petition should be dismissed because Antonelli has not shown that the prosecution was vindictive or selective, double jeopardy is not implicated in parole revocation proceedings, the presumptive release date has already been corrected, and Antonelli's due process rights were not violated by the failure to produce the witnesses.