Maurice Mickey Mandel v. David M. Heritage, Warden, United States Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington

Mandel has had trouble with “forged securities” in interstate commerce— some operation involving “bad checks.” 18 U.S.C. § 415 . The record here begins in August, 1948, in the Northern District of Oklahoma. In a total of seven similar counts found in four indictments or in-formations he was sentenced on August 17,1948, to serve ten years on each count, all sentences to run concurrently. A week later, on August 24, on another similar count in another information or indictment he was sentenced to serve five years, the time to be concurrent with that of the sentences of August 17. He was received at Leavenworth penitentiary on August 26, 1948, where apparently the time of his sentence was established as having started to run as of the date of the first sentence: August 17, 1948. On September 8, 1954, he was released conditionally from the Federal Prison Camp at Tucson, Arizona, a notation being made on his record that there remained' 1438 days to be served.

On October 26, 1954, a member of the U. S. Board of Parole issued a warrant for Mandel’s arrest upon the ground that the latter had violated the conditions of his release. On January 5, 1955, pursuant to the warrant he was…