11th Circ. Punts On Immigration Custody As 'Imprisonment'

By Chuck Stanley (November 29, 2017, 7:46 PM EST) -- An Eleventh Circuit panel on Tuesday declined to rule on whether time spent in immigration detention constitutes "imprisonment" for the purposes of federal sentencing guidelines, after an immigrant argued that his time awaiting deportation for an overturned drug conviction should not be used to determine his identity theft sentence....

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