Glascoe v. U.S.U.S. Appeals Court GOOD TIME CREDIT Glascoe v. U.S., 358 F.3d 967 (D.C.Cir. 2004). Prisoners who were serving indeterminate sentences indeterminate sentence: see parole; sentence. of at least 15 years to life petitioned for habeas relief seeking the deduction of good time credits from their maximum sentences of life imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. . The district court denied the petition and the prisoners appealed. The appeals court affirmed, finding that life sentences were indeterminate That which is uncertain or not particularly designated. INDETERMINATE. That which is uncertain or not particularly designated; as, if I sell you one hundred bushels of wheat, without stating what wheat. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 950. and were therefore not capable of reduction in accordance with the pertinent statute. The court began it's decision by asking "Precisely how long is an individual's life span minus, say, five years and 10 days? One cannot give a firm answer if the person is still alive." (District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). ) |
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