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This document is a court opinion from the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit regarding a federal prisoner, Samuel Eakman, who appealed the denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion seeking to vacate or amend his prison sentence. Eakman claimed his sentence was constitutionally invalid because the district judge relied on a mistaken belief that the Bureau of Prisons had discretion to place him in a halfway house, when in fact the Bureau lacked such authority. The Court of Appeals held that if t

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