Under federal law, a federal prisoner serving a sentence of more than one year but less than life, “may receive credit toward the service of [his] sentence, beyond the time served, of up to 54 days at the end of each year of the prisoner’s term of...
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In 2002, a South Carolina state court convicted Keith Lavon Burgess of possessing a small amount of cocaine in violation of S.C. Code Ann. � 44-53-370(d)(1). Brief for Petitioner at 3. South Carolina classifies simple possession of cocaine as a...