United States Ninth Circuit

Bureau of Prison's Program Statement 5162.04, which excludes from early release programs those drug dealers who carried firearms, is a permissible excercise of the Bureau's discretion under 18 USC 3621.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/06/2001
• Decided 05/16/2001
• Published 05/16/2001

Judges

• GRABER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  T.G. NELSON, GRABER, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas M. Gannon, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent-appellant., Stephen R. Sady, Chief Deputy Public Defender, Portland, Oregon, for the petitioner-appellee.