UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

TENTH CIRCUIT

RANDY DALE SMITH,

Petitioner - Appellant,

v.

T.C. PETERSON, Warden; UNITED STATES BUREAU OF PRISONS, Federal Correctional Institution at El Reno, Oklahoma,

Respondents - Appellees.	No. 02-6301

(D.C. No. 01-CV-1089-R)

(W.D. Oklahoma)

ORDER AND JUDGMENT*

Before EBEL, HENRY and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Pro se Petitioner Randy Dale Smith is currently incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Oklahoma. He filed this petition for habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241, arguing that he has been wrongly denied credit on the federal sentence he is currently serving.

Smith was incarcerated in an Oklahoma prison on state charges in 1996 when he was loaned to federal authorities, pursuant to a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum, for prosecution on federal charges. Smith argues first that while on loan for the federal charges (to which he ultimately pled guilty), he should have received credit towards the federal sentence he ultimately received. Second, he argues that because the federal sentence and state sentence arose out of the same transaction, they should have been designated to run concurrently instead of consecutively. Finally, he argues that because his federal sentence was not calculated properly, he has been wrongly forced to serve that sentence on an installment basis.

The district court referred Smith's petition to a magistrate judge, who recommended that the petition be denied. After reviewing the magistrate's report de novo, the district court adopted its recommendations and denied the petition. Our review of the record, the parties' briefs and the magistrate's thorough treatment of Smith's petition leads us to AFFIRM the district court's denial of the petition for habeas corpus for substantially the reasons stated in the magistrate's report.

ENTERED FOR THE COURT

David M. Ebel

Circuit Judge