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Date Created: 2014-10-31 05:01:02.129666+00
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Case: 13-41001      Document: 00512821109         Page: 1    Date Filed: 10/30/2014

           IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                    FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
                                                                           United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                    Fifth Circuit

                                    No. 13-41001                                  FILED
                                  Summary Calendar                         October 30, 2014
                                                                             Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                                  Clerk
RAYMOND C. POTOSKI,

                                                 Petitioner-Appellant

v.

JOHN B. FOX,

                                                 Respondent-Appellee

                  Appeals from the United States District Court
                        for the Eastern District of Texas
                             USDC No. 1:11-CV-539

Before KING, JOLLY, and HAYNES, Circuit Judges
PER CURIAM: *
       Raymond C. Potoski, federal prisoner # 72713-083, appeals the district
court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition, challenging the Bureau of
Prison’s (BOP) calculation of his 84-month sentence for his 2008 arson
conviction. He renews his assertion that he is entitled to credit toward his
federal sentence for all of the time he spent in pretrial detention and state
custody.

       * Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH
CIR. R. 47.5.4.
    Case: 13-41001     Document: 00512821109     Page: 2   Date Filed: 10/30/2014

                                  No. 13-41001

        The undisputed facts show that Potoski received credit toward his state
sentence for the time he spent in state and federal pretrial custody. The BOP
thus properly denied crediting the same time toward his federal sentence. See
18 U.S.C. § 3585(b); see also Leal v. Tombone, 341 F.3d 427, 430 (5th Cir. 2003).
The federal district court had the discretion to order Potoski’s federal sentence
to run consecutively to his then-anticipated state sentence, and the BOP
correctly presumed from the district court’s not specifying a concurrent
sentence that it intended to impose a consecutive sentence. See 18 U.S.C.
§ 3584(a); Setser v. United States, 132 S. Ct. 1463, 1466-73 (2012). The state
court’s designation that Potoski’s state sentence was to run concurrently with
the federal sentence did not have any bearing on the district court’s judgment
and is irrelevant to the BOP’s computation. See Leal, 341 F.3d at 428-29 &
n.13.    Similarly, because the federal judgment did not specify concurrent
sentences, Willis v. United States, 438 F.2d 923 (5th Cir. 1971), is inapplicable.
Moreover, Potoski has not demonstrated that the district court abused its
discretion in declining to make a nunc pro tunc designation of his state prison
as the place at which his federal sentence was being served given the federal
sentencing judge’s strong opposition to such designation.         See 18 U.S.C.
§ 3621(b).
        Accordingly, the district court’s judgment is AFFIRMED.

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