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5-27-2005

Gilmore v. Miner
Precedential or Non-Precedential: Non-Precedential

Docket No. 05-1977




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HPS-75 (April 2005)                                      NOT PRECEDENTIAL

                        UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                             FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT

                                    NO. 05-1977
                       ____________________________________

                                    CHAD GILMORE,
                                                Appellant

                                             v.

                                JONATHAN C. MINER,
                                WARDEN, FCI FAIRTON
                      _____________________________________

                     On Appeal From the United States District Court
                              For the District of New Jersey
                               (D.C. Civ. No. 05-cv-00799)
                       District Judge: Honorable Freda L. Wolfson
                     _______________________________________

 Submitted For Possible Summary Action Under Third Circuit LAR 27.4 and I.O.P. 10.6
                                  April 29, 2005
          Before: SCIRICA, Chief Judge, WEIS and GARTH, Circuit Judges

                                 Filed: May 27, 2005

                               _______________________

                                       OPINION
                               _______________________

PER CURIAM.

              Chad Gilmore, a prisoner incarcerated at the Federal Correctional

Institution in Fairton, New Jersey, appeals pro se the order of the United States District

Court for the District of New Jersey denying his habeas petition filed pursuant to 28
U.S.C. § 2241. For the reasons that follow, we will summarily affirm the District Court’s

order.

              According to his § 2241 petition, Gilmore pled guilty to receipt of child

pornography in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. On January

27, 2003, Gilmore was sentenced to 32 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three

years of supervised release. The Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) has calculated that Gilmore

is eligible under 18 U.S.C. § 3624(b) to earn up to 125 days of good conduct time.

              In February 2005, Gilmore filed the underlying § 2241 petition in the

District Court for the District of New Jersey. In his petition, Gilmore alleged that the

BOP misinterpreted § 3624(b), depriving him of 19 days of good conduct time.

Specifically, Gilmore argued that § 3624(b) allows him to earn up to 54 days per year of

the term of sentence imposed, not 54 days per year of time actually served as the BOP’s

calculation provides. By order entered March 1, 2005, the District Court denied

Gilmore’s petition. This timely appeal followed.

              The outcome of this appeal is controlled by our recent decision in O’Donald

v. Johns, 

(3d Cir. 2005). In 

, we held that the

meaning of § 3624(b) is ambiguous, and thus deferred to the BOP’s reasonable

interpretation of the statute. Gilmore’s claim, identical to that raised and rejected in

O’Donald, is unavailing. In short, for the reasons described in O’Donald, the District

Court properly rejected Gilmore’s challenge to the BOP’s calculation of his good conduct

time.
             Because this appeal presents “no substantial question,” 3d Cir. LAR 27.4

and I.O.P. 10.6, we will summarily affirm the District Court’s March 1, 2005, order.