Is a challenge to the execution of a federal sentence properly brought in a writ of habeas corpus?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Perez-Robles v. United States, 1:16-cv-00128 MJS HC (E.D. Cal. 2016):
A challenge to the execution of a federal sentence is properly brought in a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. 2241. See United States v. Giddings, 740 F.2d 770, 772 (9th Cir. 1984). And it is preferably brought in the district of confinement.
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