43. Sentence.

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DELAY

Bonebrake v. Norris, 417 F.3d 938 (8th Cir. 2005). An offender appealed her state conviction of possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver. The federal court granted her habeas corpus petition. The state appealed and the appeals court reversed. The court held that the state's four-year delay in incarcerating the offender did not amount to a waiver of incarceration under the Due Process Clause. Neither the district attorney's office nor law enforcement personnel took any steps to take the offender into custody after the state appellate court affirmed her conviction and sentence, and the prisoner was not in hiding. (Yell County Jail, Arkansas)

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PROBATION-REVOCATION PAROLE

Dawson v. Newman, 419 F.3d 656 (7th Cir. 2005). A former probationer brought a state court [section] 1983...