Anthony James Bridgeport v. United States

891 F.2d 294 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Anthony James BRIDGEPORT, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee. No. 88-2928. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Submitted July 26, 1989. * Decided Dec. 5, 1989. Before SNEED, FLETCHER, and DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM ** 2 Petitioner Bridgeport appeals the district court's denial of his motion to reduce his sentence by the amount of time he spent on supervised release pending appeal. We affirm. 3 Bridgeport, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 , filed a petition to correct his sentence by reducing it by the amount of time he spent on supervised release pending appeal. Such time, Bridgeport argues, is equivalent to time spent in custody. This is contrary to the applicable statute, 18 U.S.C. § 3568 , although the statute was repealed by the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, the effective date of which was November 1, 1987. Section 3568, however,…