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I may have more to say about this after I've had some time to digest the study. Meanwhile, on to today's topic.
Given the context of these juxtaposed assertions about the cultural tutelage of Native peoples to the superiors in Europe or outer space, it's probably an opportune moment to share a blog post made by Ohio archaeologist Brad Lepper, published yesterday, in which Lepper discusses how ancient astronaut theories are, essentially, racist.
What matters is that there is an underlying racism, or at least ethnocentrism, to the theory. Think about it. Most of the marvelous monuments of antiquity that are said to have required the help of ancient aliens are in non-European countries. The Greeks evidently built the Parthenon on their own. The Romans certainly built the Colosseum (sic) without extraterrestrial assistance. And yet the champions of ancient aliens want you to believe that the Egyptians needed special help to build their pyramids. And those poor savages on Easter Island certainly couldn't have carved and moved all those gigantic statues on their own.
So I thought I'd do some checking into the academic literature to see what we can learn about light beings in Chihuahua and feathered serpents in America.
The site of Paquimé is fascinating because it combines elements of Mesoamerican culture and Pueblo culture in a way that is rarely seen elsewhere. The architecture is most closely aligned to Pueblo structures such as Casa Grande on the Gila River in Arizona, but a study by Christine S. VanPool called "The Shaman-Priests of the Casas Grandes Region, Chihuahua, Mexico," published in American Antiquity in 2005 (vol. 68, no. 4) suggests that pottery images can be used to connect the belief system of the Paquimé people to the shamanic cultures of Mesoamerica.
Her analysis is rather lengthy, but the short version is that images found on pots can be organized to document a classic "shaman's journey," which involves a (mental) voyage to and from the spirit world in an altered state of consciousness, and thus represents a close alignment to similar shamanic cultures known from Mesoamerican contexts.
By tracing the designs on the smokers, dancers, and macaw-headed humans, a transformation sequence of males smoking, dancing, and metamorphosing into supernatural entities can be observed. These individuals represent shamans who are depicted in various stages of a "classic shamanic journey" traveling to and from the spirit world.
This contrasts with the less centralized shamanic culture of the Pueblo peoples, who did not restrict shamanism to only the political elite and did not worship their leaders as deities.
The Paquimé pottery shows shaman-kings transforming into supernatural creatures, which probably accounts for all of the surviving stories of supernatural beings at the ruins. Additionally, the dead were shown as naked, glowing spirits.
The shamans wore headdresses of plumed or horned serpents, something found in art across the desert southwest. In an image on a Ramos Polychrome jar found in the House of the Walk-in-Well, the serpent-shaman is decorated with three pound signs (#), something seen on other Casas Grandes pots, indicating that (a) symbols can evolve independently across time and space or (b) aliens invented Twitter hashtags. Apparently at Casas Grandes the # symbol was used to mark the shaman in his supernatural state.
This leads us effortlessly into a discussion of the serpent as a cultural symbol because at Casas Grandes, as across Mexico and the desert southwest, the serpent was one of the most important spiritual symbols, representing rebirth and transformation. Across the region, the serpent was believed to come from the underworld (since, obviously, snakes slither on the ground and vanish into holes), and to this day the Hopi believe snakes are messengers to and from the underworld.
But those are plain old everyday serpents. America Unearthed cares instead for feathered serpents, despite the complete and total absence of feathered serpents from Bronze Age European art. Indeed, if anything, the serpent cults of Europe are decidedly below ground affairs, associating serpents, like the snake-god Zeus Melichios, with the underworld or, like the snake-king Cecrops, with the earth itself.
Anyway, it has been known for a very long time that the Mississippians developed a complex and elaborate set of symbols, exchanged from Louisiana to Wisconsin, that bear a resemblance to those of Mesoamerica, though without sharing an identity. In the 1940s, the first academic descriptions of what is now called the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, but then known as the Southern Cult, noted the similarity to Mexican iconography and suggested that it might have been a religious revival—what we now call a cultural revitalization movement—that adapted and adopted elements of Mexican art (though not necessarily the underlying belief system) and spread it throughout the Mississippian lands.
However, the early archaeologists also claimed that Mexican iconography entered the United States during Tristan de Luna's Spanish expedition of 1559-1561 and that the Mississippian culture dated to only 1600 CE. The advent of radiocarbon dating and other dating methods over the next few decades would prove these claims conclusively false with the recognition that the Mississippians flourished centuries before the Spanish Conquest. But even the archaeologists of the 1940s recognized that there were no Mexican artifacts ever found in the Mississippian lands—a fact that stood until 2002, when a single obsidian scraper found at Spiro Mounds was geologically linked to Mesoamerica.
In 1976, writing in Current Anthropology (vol. 17, no. 3) biologist Balaji Mundkur proposed in "The Cult of the Serpent in the Americas" that New World serpent worship came to America from northeastern Asia at some exceedingly early date as part of a global cult of serpent worship dating back to the dawn of humanity and encoded in primate DNA. He detailed these claims in his 1983 book The Cult of the Serpent. Mundkur saw all of the Americas as part of one single religious tradition, which Mundkur connected to those on the other side of the Bering Sea land bridge. That would be an impressive—and to my mind, unconvincing—amount of cultural continuity over tens of thousands of years and untold changes in culture, language, and circumstance.
For Mundkur, an evolution-induced fear of snakes led to humans making them gods or monsters, but I can't really trust unconditionally anyone who uses hoax "artifacts" from Erich von Däniken's Gold of the Gods as evidence, though recognizing them as modern fakes that somehow preserve ideas from earlier cultures. I also can't quite connect "fear" of snakes to the beneficent role they played in the Near East outside of monotheistic Israel. I think he was probably right that similarities in human minds across time and space led to repeated eruptions of serpent worship, but I'm not sure that one could make the case that snakes are uniquely dangerous, or the only beneficiaries of such neurological events. David Lewis-Williams attributes serpent imagery to the zigzag patterns seen in altered states of consciousness, which early humans probably interpreted as serpents. This makes more sense to me and allows for more interplay between neurology and culture in creating religious expression.
Anyway, such claims could explain the existence of a serpent cult without the movement of Bronze Age Scots across the Atlantic.
But this is getting away from our subject. The Mississippians, around 1200 CE, began using imagery of a serpent with horns, wings, or feathers. This bears a resemblance to Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent. Adrienne Mayor, evaluating North American oral traditions, suggests that the creature originated in Native myths explaining observations of dinosaur skeletons. Since the serpent has been used in Native art for many centuries prior to the Mississippians, many anthropologists and archaeologists now believe that the feathered serpent was an outgrowth of the earlier, non-feathered serpent tradition whereby the feathers or wings were added to symbolize a celestial connection for the serpent. In this reading, the Mexican and Mississippian feathered serpents would have emerged independently from parallel attempts to symbolize a connection between the snake and the sky. Against this is the fact that in most post-Mississippian Native cultures the serpent known as the Great Serpent was an underground or underwater creature, often with horns, who battled the Thunder Bird, a heavenly force. This underwater serpent has a variant, the underwater panther, who is closely associated with a piece of mysterious rock art near Alton, Illinois, as I discussed some time ago, as well as effigy mounds (such as the one in Granville, Ohio).
Most recently, work identifying the Great Serpent with stars in what is for the West the constellation Scorpio provides evidence that Quetzalcoatl and the Great Serpent were independent creations. In this reading, the Great Serpent is underwater during the time when Scorpio is beneath the horizon, but as a sky creature also briefly rises into the sky in the summer, during the time when he battles the Thunder Bird and holds enormous power over the earth. Thus, the feathers or wings are what George E. Lankford, writing in a chapter in F. Kent Reilly III's and James F. Garber's Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms (U Texas, 2007) calls a "locative sign" indicating that this serpent in art is meant to be the one that we can find in the sky, not the regular snakes on the ground. He is the Great Serpent during the weeks of his above-ground power. Thus too does the Great Serpent typically have a red eye, which Lankford says likely represents the large red star Antares in Scorpio.
Lankford, an expert in Native American ethnoastronomy, also interprets the Ohio Serpent Mound as the Great Serpent. He reads the "egg" near the serpent's mouth as its eye—Antares—and two unexplained blobs on either side of the head as "the remnants of some feather locative" that has since eroded and was not restored by F. W. Putnam in the 1880s.
It took me all of fifteen minutes to find Lankford's research. I don't know about you, but I find that much more interesting than an imaginary cult of Scots preaching the gospel of the serpent across America. It has all the same elements as Wolter's version: a detective story spanning centuries, serpent symbolism, a widespread cult diffused across time and space, and even what Wolter wrongly calls "archaeastronomy." It's even associated with the Alton, Illinois rock art "mystery" (which would make a great opening act), and you could bring in Quetzalcoatl as the red herring that kept the truth hidden for far too long by leading early scholars on a fruitless quest for Mexican connections that weren't there. The story is just as fascinating as Scott Wolter's fabrication, and, most likely, true. But it doesn't involve any Scots or Europeans or white people.
I can't come up with a reason why America Unearthed would ignore such an interesting and exciting investigation and instead propose that the Scots brought serpent worship to America except for Eurocentrism; as I've shown, Lankford's version has everything you need for a fascinating hour, duplicating nearly all of Wolter's claims except for having Europeans in America. This either says something about the target audience for America Unearthed, or the show, or the laziness of one or the other or both. My guess? The show thinks the audience wants to hear about Europeans in America, and their research rarely extends beyond Frank Joseph and fringe literature, notorious cesspools of abandoned nineteenth-century Eurocentric claims.
This might sound like another non-issue of little importance, but let me remind you that a poll conducted in 2012 by the National Geographic Channel found that 36% of Americans believe that Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid of Giza are evidence of extraterrestrial involvement in prehistory. I don't particularly trust this poll, conducted by "email invitations and online surveys" in conjunction with the now-canceled Chasing UFOs series, but it does begin to suggest the depth of the problem of people, particularly Americans, believing low-evidence, sensational claims about history thanks to cable TV and internet repetition. Every time a fact-free claim about Atlantis, lost white colonizers, or aliens goes out on cable, someone takes it seriously. This is a problem.
Ancient Aliens is a lost cause, but America Unearthed missed an opportunity to say something interesting about serpent myths in pre-Columbian America. As I've shown, it can be done. It took me all of fifteen minutes to do it, and I imagine that even on the tight schedule of America Unearthed, fifteen minutes wouldn't be much more than the time taken to thumb through Ancient American magazine back issues. Even if you don't believe Lankford's interpretation, it is founded on vastly more evidence than anything America Unearthed imagined supports the idea of wandering serpent-worshiping Scots converting the Natives to European faiths.


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KU newspaper's fee revenue won't be restored following Student Senate vote
Was once one of the top schools. Check the rankings. If I recall the last major Newsweek type ranking didn't list KU in the top 20. Mizzou and Columbia still at/near the top.
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Kansas governor vetoes American Royal, power plant measures
Some in the state want to privatize mental hospitals? Must have missed that story. Conservatives learn nothing from history. Care for the mentally ill, like public education, is one of the fundamental duties of a government. But then the current GOP doesn't really believe in the need for government in the first place.
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Kansas House passes amendment protecting hunting, fishing rights
I'm sensing an ulterior motive. This is precisely to protect private land owners and owners of private hunting preserves from interference by state limitations. Kiss the Lesser Prairie Chicken good bye.
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Kansas Republicans hold to hard-right stance; ACLU and League of Women Voters 'communists,' Kobach says
Check you history. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter was a founder of the ACLU. Frankfurter was a moderate to conservative on most issues.
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Kansas Republicans hold to hard-right stance; ACLU and League of Women Voters 'communists,' Kobach says
And which begat which: the Kobachs of the world or the Trumps? Kobach is very much like Trump. Can he ever say anything that is so over the top that the electorate would turn away from him? So far it's a tough call for both. Idiots seem to be in abundance.
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Efficiency consultants recommend taking money from schools' cash reserves, consolidating health plans
Wow, rocket science! Collect the taxes that the state is owed, and consolidate and standardize health insurance to cut administrative costs. Sadly, one of the "unintended" results of Obamacare is that it refocused employers to consider the cost of health insurance and for the insurance industry to change the traditional insurance benefit model. Anyone remember the days of the 80-20 plans? Some of this high deductible model is also a result of the industry pushing HSA eligible plans, which goes back to the Bush years. Now people are accepting the high deductible plans as the norm.
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Bill expanding tax credits for private school scholarships advances
We can send them all to Blue Valley schools. Most public schools function quite well. Many are on par with some of the best private academies. So we already have the model that works, and it's populated by god forbid union teachers. Copy what works, not divert funds. A friend of mine lives in Thailand. His son started school at age 3. Is that what we want? Has to be paid for.
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Kansas lawmakers consider more restrictions on welfare recipients
This could be counter-productive. Other able bodied adults in the household will now just hide or move out. For these people, housing arrangements are often very fluid. What age for able bodied adult? 18? If they are part-time in school? Recently back home from jail or prison? It starts to become a micro manage nightmare.
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Kansas House GOP testing support for Supreme Court changes
As between the Kansas Bar Assn and the Kansas legislature who is the least partisan and with the most legal knowledge to evaluate judicial qualifications? Isn't the legislature more than implying that the process should be more political? It's really hard to argue that the legislature's proposal is more democratic. That's like saying that Stalin's USSR was more democratic. We have the same one party rule, and that one party doesn't want to share power or invite any non-partisan input.
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Tom Keegan: Bill Self busts out junk defense to top Kentucky
I don't know why it's called a junk defense. Every high schooler knows that's how you neutralize a team with a one or two-man offense. They used to triple team Wilt. And for all of Ted Owens faults, he was great at switching up defenses. Jack Hartman was the master of the 3-2 zone with Blackman at the point. Joe B. Hall perfected the 1-3-1 zone which prevented easy passes to the baseline. Owens used it very well in '71 with Pierre Russell running the baseline. Then you have Boeheim and Izzo' versions of zone. These aren't junk defenses. You use them to best match your personnel to the other team. Only Bobby Knight was too stubborn to ever abandon the man-to-man.
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Abstract: Azo type dye colors are used to large extent in textile and related industries; efficiencies and economics of treating ten typical azo dyes with stannous chloride for color removal have been determined; color may be removed by heating dye waste (212 F) for about two hours in presence of small quantity of stannous chloride, powerful reducing agent.
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I'm not in GreyGamers lol. Burbie couldn't add me because it was full. I only come to the GreyGamers event on Fridays. But if I was in that club I can assure you I wouldn't leave.
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If anybody here is gonna join this club i can tell you that you will get along with bob.I met bob about 2 weeks ago when i got him a gnome out of the gift machine and then he came to my avalon keep to get the rewards.We hung out a few times and then i joined his club.well i'm no longer a member but thats ok i probably didnt need to be in it anyway i'm no where near 30 but i guess he had his reason why i'm no longer a member.But anyway if you wanna join a club if your in your 30's i would recomend this 1.
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Nice to have you aboard Real Deal. And sorry seamonster I removed you from the club because some of your actions made me realize that your not as mature as I previously thought.
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There several clubs, fams, and groups that cater to our ps1 genre of gamer. I have to agree with MLn_22 I think most of the names have a geriatric ring to them. We should remember we are the Duke Nuke'em Generation.
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Up C Down C is a brilliant post-rock band out of the UK. Their name is quite ridiculous, (properly Up-C Down-C Left-C Right-C ABC + Start,) but their sound is epic "instrumental rock to wake the devil." Think Explosions In the Sky as done by The Sword, and you're in the right ballpark.
The band reportedly spent four years working on this new album, Embers, and whatever hard work that was spent creating it wasn't done in vain. Lyrics are never missed and they don't waste too much time getting to the point. There may be millions of post-rock bands out there to choose from, but this is one I think you should pay attention to.
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Should a Superpower Establish a Sphere of Influence This influence that was felt around the world led to many wars and possibly prevented a holocaust It was a visible defensive action and an invisible security wall The real importance of this question is not should a sphere of influence be established but why should a sphere be established Is it really to protect your neighboring nations for the evil of capitalism or communism no A sphere of influence is a cushion to soften the blow if the enemy is attacking Nuclear war would destroy everyone nothing a sphere of influence can alter but a conventional war time would still be the main factor For example if the Americans attacked Russia and there were no spheres of influence surrounding Russia the Americans could penetrate Russian soil on the same day they attacked Now if the spheres of influence were surrounding Russia the story would be different the outcome positive for Russians Their are two positions one could take on this problem Superpowers should or should not establish a sphere of influence in the world A positive answers justification would be that a sphere of influence protects you from the enemy and also protects weaker nations from the threat of a hostile takeover A negative answer would claim that this influence impairs smaller nations from making their own decisions and removes their freedom My position on this question is yes Smaller nations represent uncertainty that could spell disaster Especially those nations that are geographically close to my own nation With so much uncertainty so close to my own nation One would be unintelligent to ignore such a problem The first example of the importance of a sphere of influence are the Soviets nearing the end of world war two Stalins main objectives were acquiring the eastern bloc nations During the Potsdam and Yalta conferences the allied members were trying to set up rules
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September 28, 1998
IRENAS, District Judge
Petitioner Rafael Feliciano Casado ("Casado) is currently incarcerated at FCI Fairton. He was sentenced on December 29, 1987, in the United States District Court of Puerto Rico for having been a felon in possession of a firearm, 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), *fn1 having received a firearm stolen from the United States government, 18 U.S.C. § 641, and escape from federal custody, 18 U.S.C. § 751(a). He received consecutive terms of ten years, five years and five years, respectively, for each of the three convictions. Casado was given credit against this aggregate 20 year sentence for the periods from August 16, 1986, the date of his original federal arrest, through September 17, 1986, the date of his escape, and March 17, 1987, the date of his recapture, through December 29, 1997, the date on which he was sentenced.
Following his sentencing in federal court, petitioner was returned to the custody of Puerto Rico to finish serving a sentence resulting from his violation of probation stemming from a 1980 superior court conviction for voluntary manslaughter.
On August 9, 1988, Casado pled guilty in the Superior Court of Puerto Rico to transporting a loaded weapon, P.R. Laws Ann. tit. 25, § 418, receiving and transporting unlawfully appropriated property, P.R. Laws Ann. tit. 33, § 4274, and two counts of controlled substances violation, P.R. Laws Ann. tit. 24, § 2401. The weapons charge and the unlawful appropriation charge arose from the same facts which underlay the similar federal convictions. Casado was sentenced to six months on the unlawful appropriation charge and three years on each of the other three charges. However, the trial judge ordered that all four sentences were to run concurrently with each other and with the federal sentence which had previously been imposed.
Casado continued in commonwealth custody and completed serving his Puerto Rican sentences on January 2, 1991, at which time he was remanded to federal custody to complete the service of his 20 year federal sentence.
Presently before this Court is Casado's petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. Casado claims that i) his state and federal convictions relating to the illegal appropriation and possession of a firearm violate the Double Jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution; ii) the District Court improperly instructed the jury; and iii) although the state court judge ordered that Casado's federal and state sentences run concurrently, the Bureau of Prisons did not credit him for any time served while in the custody of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Casado's first two claims will be dismissed since they are not cognizable under § 2241, but should have been timely brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 in the District of Puerto Rico where he was sentenced. His final claim will also be dismissed because 18 U.S.C. § 3568 does not allow credit against a federal sentence for time spent in state custody on charges which are not substantially identical. Although there is some similarity between the gun related offenses, there are elements of the federal charges which are sufficiently different from the Puerto Rican charges to preclude the credit sought by petitioner.
Petitioner's double jeopardy argument and his claim of faulty jury instructions attack the validity of his conviction and, thus, the legality of his sentence. Claims attacking the legality of a sentence are properly brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. See Wright v. United States Bd. of Parole, 557 F.2d 74, 77 (6th Cir. 1977). See also Chambers v. United States, 106 F.3d 472, 474 (2d Cir. 1997). Generally, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under § 2241 is appropriate only "where petitioner challenges the effects of events `subsequent' to his sentence." Gomori v. Arnold, 533 F.2d 871, 874 (3d Cir. 1976), cert. denied, 429 U.S. 851 (1976). Issues relating to parole, computation of credits against a sentence which are administered by prison officials, and prison disciplinary actions are examples of matters which might properly be heard under § 2241. Liebman & Hertz, Federal Habeas Corpus Practice and Procedure (2d Ed.), vol.2, pp. 1184-1190.
However, petitioner's claims of double jeopardy and improper jury instructions should have been brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 before the District Court in Puerto Rico which sentenced him. Section 2255 provides that:
An application for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a prisoner who is authorized to apply for relief by motion pursuant to this section, shall not be entertained if it appears that the applicant has failed to apply for relief, by motion, to the court which sentenced him, or that such court has denied him relief, unless it also appears that the remedy by motion is inadequate or ineffective to test the legality of his detention.
The record does not indicate that petitioner has applied for relief in Puerto Rico or that the remedy pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is "inadequate or ineffective to test the legality of his detention." New Jersey is not the proper venue, and § 2241 is not the proper statute for raising either the double jeopardy or jury instruction issue.
In some instances, where a petitioner improperly brings his petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 instead of § 2255, it is appropriate for the court to transfer the case to the sentencing court for decision under § 2255. Here, however, if we transferred petitioner's case to the sentencing court, that court would have to find that petitioner's claim is barred by § 2255's one-year statute of limitations. 28 U.S.C. § 2255, as amended by The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, ("AEDPA"), Pub. L. No. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1218, which became effective April 24, 1996, provides, in relevant part:
A 1-year period of limitation shall apply to a motion under this section. The limitation period shall run from the latest of -
(1) the date on which the judgment of conviction becomes final
(4) the date on which the facts supporting the claim or claims presented could have been discovered through the exercise of due diligence.
Federal courts have determined that prisoners should be given a "reasonable time" after the AEDPA became effective to file petitions which would otherwise be barred by the statute. See Burns v. Morton, 134 F.3d 109, 111 (3d Cir. 1998); United States v. Simmonds, 111 F.3d 737, 745-46 (10th Cir. 1997); Lindh v. Murphy, 96 F.3d 856, 866 (7th Cir. 1996), rev'd on other grounds, - - - U.S. - - - , 117 S. Ct. 2059 (1997). A "reasonable time" has been defined by the courts as one year from the date that 28 U.S.C. § 2255 was amended by the AEDPA, to include the limitations period. See Burns, 134 F.3d at 111; Simmonds, 111 F.3d at 746; Lindh, 96 F.3d at 866. Therefore, because the AEDPA became effective on April 24, 1996, petitioner would have had until April 23, 1997 to file his § 2255 motion. Here, petitioner did not file his petition until June 10, 1998. Petitioner has waited more than ten years to raise issues which were apparent at or soon after he was sentenced. Because it would not be in the interest of justice to transfer petitioner's time-barred claims, we will exercise our discretion under 1406(a) *fn2 and decline to transfer the case.
Petitioner contends that the commonwealth judge ordered that his August 9, 1988, commonwealth sentence run concurrently with the December 29, 1987, federal sentence, but that the Bureau of Prisons did not credit him for the time served in commonwealth prison on the gun related charges. Essentially, petitioner relies on two grounds for relief. First, he argues that the intention of the superior court judge that the commonwealth sentence run concurrently with the federal sentence must be honored by federal authorities. Alternatively, he argues that the Bureau of Prisons was required to give him credit for state custody, because the state and federal convictions are sufficiently connected, as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 3568.
The record clearly indicates that the state court intended that Casado's "sentence shall be served concurrently . . . with the sentences imposed in the Federal Court." It is also clear that the prisoner served his Puerto Rican sentence in a commonwealth prison before being turned over to federal custody. It is well settled law that a state court may choose to impose a state sentence as concurrent with an existing federal sentence. This follows from the obvious proposition that a sovereign state exercises full control over their own sentences. However, as a necessary corollary, the validity and length of a federal sentence is not legally affected by the intentions of a state court. See Pinaud v. James, 851 F.2d 27, 31 (2nd Cir. 1988); Vaughn v. United States, 548 F.2d 631, 632-33 (6th Cir. 1977); Opela v. United States, 415 F.2d 231, 232 (5th Cir. 1969). The effect of these principles is that a state must turn a prisoner over to the federal government before the state sentence is completely served if they wish to impose a concurrent sentence. Once the federal sentence commences a state is free to give a prisoner credit against any unserved portion of a state sentence. But the state is powerless to force the federal authorities to credit previously served state time against the remaining unserved part of a federal sentence.
This time of commencement of a federal sentence is controlled by 18 U.S.C. § 3568 *fn3 which provides:
The sentence of imprisonment of any person convicted of an offense shall commence to run from the date on which such person is received at the penitentiary, reformatory, or jail for service of such sentence.
The case law interpreting § 3568 has clearly established that a federal sentence cannot begin to run until a prisoner has been received by the federal authorities. See Kincade v. United States, 559 F.2d 906, 908 (3d Cir. 1977) (finding that § 3568 in effect provides that a federal sentence shall begin to run only after prisoner is released from state custody and received at place of federal detention); Del Guzzi v. United States, 980 F.2d 1269 (9th Cir. 1991) (finding that § 3568 mandates that federal authorities need only accept prisoners upon completion of their state sentence and need not credit prisoners with time spent in state custody); Pinaud v. James, 851 F.2d 27, 31 (2nd Cir. 1988) (finding that § 3568 precludes calculation of time served on a federal sentence from any date other than on which defendant was delivered to federal prison officials); United States v. Segal, 549 F.2d 1293, 1301 (9th Cir. 1977) (finding that district judge has no authority to impose a federal sentence concurrent with a state sentence because a federal term cannot begin until a prisoner is received by federal authorities under 3568).
Accordingly, petitioner's federal sentence did not begin to run until January 2, 1991, when he was released from state custody and received at the place of federal detention. *fn4 Had the commonwealth turned petitioner over to the federal authorities, instead of incarcerating him in a commonwealth prison, it is clear that the state sentence would have run concurrently with the federal sentence. Since this is not the case, this Court is powerless to effectuate the desire of the Puerto Rican court.
Section 3568 provides that "[t]he Attorney General shall give any such person credit toward service of his sentence for any days spent in custody "in connection" with the offense or acts for which sentence was imposed" (emphasis added). Petitioner contends that his state and federal convictions are sufficiently similar to one another such that the federal authorities are required to credit him for the time served in state prison. The determination of whether petitioner is entitled to any relief turns upon whether the time he spent in state custody is "in connection" with the offense or acts for which his federal sentence was imposed. This requires that this Court examine petitioner's federal and state convictions to determine if they are sufficiently connected.
Casado's December 29, 1987, federal conviction for violating 18 U.S.C. § 641 and 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) were based on facts related to two of the four counts on which the August 9, 1988, Puerto Rican conviction was based. Petitioner argues that because the same weapon established both convictions, the federal sentence was actually based upon the same offense or act as the state sentence and thus his federal sentence should be credited for the time served in state custody. The standard for finding that the state and federal sentence resulted from the "same charges" is a strict one. See Emig v. Bell, 456 F. Supp. 24, 26 (D. Ct. 1978).
Petitioner correctly cites Fontaine v. United States, 434 F.2d 1310, 1311 (5th Cir. 1970) for the proposition that credit is given on a federal sentence for time spent in state custody if the state custody was based upon the same offenses or acts for which the federal sentence was imposed. However, Fontaine held that a petitioner who had been convicted of transporting a stolen automobile in interstate commerce was not entitled to credit for time spent in state custody on a conviction of theft of such automobile. Id. at 1310.
Fontaine is analogous to the instant case because the petitioner in Fontaine argued that his federal sentence should be credited with the three years he had served on the Louisiana state conviction for theft of the same auto which he transported in interstate commerce, because the separate convictions were based on the same acts. The Fifth Circuit distinguished the federal and state offenses:
It is true that the same automobile was involved in both offenses, but it is with this incidental fact the sameness ends. The Louisiana offense of auto theft was based on the defendant's admitted actions in taking possession of a car that was not his. The State crime was complete at the moment of wrongful appropriation, even if the vehicle moved one-half block. On the other hand, the federal offense of knowingly transporting a stolen vehicle across state lines did not occur until the automobile was taken across a state line and it was in no way dependent upon the theft of the automobile by the defendant. Id. at 1311.
The state charge was therefore not sufficiently connected with the federal charge for purposes of crediting the state time on the prisoner's sentence under § 3568. See also Emig v. Bell, 456 F. Supp. 24 (D. Ct. 1978) (finding that federal conviction for making false statements on a loan application and state conviction for check fraud do not constitute "same charges" under § 3568); Watson v. Henderson, 350 F. Supp. 240 (N.D. Ga. 1972) (finding that prisoner was not entitled to credit on subsequent federal sentence for time served in state sentence because forgery conviction for which prisoner was in state custody was a different crime than federal conviction for interstate transportation of forged securities).
That the same gun established Casado's state and federal convictions does not render them sufficiently connected for the purpose of crediting his federal sentence under § 3568. The acts necessary to constitute the federal offenses required theft of federal property (§ 641), that Casado have a prior felony conviction, (§ 922(g)(1)) and that the weapon in question had been shipped in interstate commerce (§ 922(g)(1)). None of these three elements was required by either of the two Puerto Rican convictions which relate to the same gun. See P.R. Laws Ann. tit. 25, § 418; and P.R. Laws Ann. tit. 33, § 4274.
Accordingly, this Court finds that petitioner's state and federal offenses are not sufficiently connected pursuant to §3568 to require credit towards his federal sentence for his time served in state custody. *fn5 The Bureau of Prisons properly computed petitioner's sentence to begin on January 2, 1991, the day he was remanded to federal custody with appropriate credit for the time he spent in custody from August 16, 1986 through September 17, 1986, and March 17, 1987, through December 29, 1987.
For the foregoing reasons, we will deny petitioner's petition for a writ of habeas corpus. An appropriate order will issue on even date herewith.
DATE: September 28, 1998
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