(HC) Shelton v. USDC Northern Alabama

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 DWIGHT R. SHELTON, JR., No. 2:21-cv-2113-EFB P Petitioner, v. ORDER USDC NORTHERN ALABAMA, Respondent. 16 Petitioner is a federal prisoner proceeding without counsel in this petition for writ of habeas corpus brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. ECF No. 1. Petitioner is confined in Folsom State Prison. ECF No. 1 at 1. He is currently serving a state sentence of 25-years-to-life plus four years and four months. Id. While petitioner provides scant context, he was apparently convicted of violating federal law, possibly at or near the same time that he was convicted by the state. He alleges that he was sentenced by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama on May 17, 2011 to a term of 17 months to be served concurrently with his state sentence and to a term of 12 months to be served consecutively to the state sentence. Id. According to petitioner, the district court failed to credit his federal sentence 26 …