Lewis L. Boniface v. P.M. Carlson, Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Phoenix

Lewis L. Boniface, a federal prisoner, appeals pro se the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition for a writ of habeas corpus and his motion for expansion of the record. Boniface contends that the Parole Commission denied him due process by refusing him credit for street and state jail time and by failing to warn him of the possibility of this forfeiture before his parole revocation hearing. He further contends that he needed the bail hearing transcript to prove that bail was denied solely because of the pending federal detainer in which case he would be entitled to credit for the time he would otherwise have been free.

FACTS

Boniface is serving the unexpired term on two prior federal sentences following the revocation of his parole. In 1970, a federal court sentenced Boniface to eight years on a marijuana charge upon which he was released on parole in 1973. In July 1975, another federal court sentenced him to ten years on an explosives charge, and on December 21, 1978, he was released on parole from that sentence but was taken into custody for parole violation and was sentenced to serve the remainder of this 1970 marijuana sentence. On December 24,1981, he was…