opinion: Billy Ray HALL, Appellee, v. O. M. BOSTIC, Monroe Prison Unit and the Attorney General of the State of North Carolina, Appellant.
  No. 75-1119.
  United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
  Argued June 10, 1975.
  Decided Dec. 16, 1975.
  Certiorari Denied April 26, 1976.
  See 96 S.Ct. 1733.
  Lawrence Young, Chapel Hill, N. C. [court-appointed counsel], for appellee.
  Jacob Safron, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen., and Richard N. League, Asst. Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellant.
  Before RUSSELL, FIELD and WIDENER, Circuit Judges.
  Donald RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:
  The petitioner, a North Carolina prisoner, pleaded guilty to the crime of forgery and was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment, suspended during probation for five years. Under the North Carolina probation statute, one who, under suspended sentence as was the petitioner, violates the conditions of his probation, is dealt with “as if there had been no probation or suspension of sentence” and “his original sentence” is “automatically activated.” After serving four and a half years on probation, the petitioner had his probation revoked in proceedings had in conformity with these North Carolina procedures. He claims the right to have credited on his seven year prison sentence the four and a half years during which he was on probation. The state court denied relief and this habeas action was filed in the District Court, which sustained the petitioner’s claim and ordered the state authorities to credit time on probation against his forgery prison sentence. We reverse.
  There is nothing unusual in the denial by North Carolina law of credit for probation or parole time against a prison sentence. It is common to both state and federal probation and parole systems. The validity of such denial has been universally recognized both in federal and state decisions. The leading case to this effect is Kaplan v. Hecht (2d Cir. 1928) 24 F.2d 664, 665, in which the Court said:
  “The second contention is that the time during which appellant was on ¡probation must be credited upon the execution of the sentence of imprisonment imposed on November 2, 1927. The argument runs that, although on probation, he was not a free man, but was undergoing punishment and restraint in execution of the judgment of conviction, so that any imprisonment after December 8, 1927, the expiration of 18 months from the date he was placed on probation, amounts to a second punishment for the same crime, in violation of the Fifth Amendment. The fallacy of this argument is made at once apparent upon a consideration of the purpose of the Probation Act. This is clearly explained in the recent opinion of the Supreme Court, cited above, where the Chief Justice points out that probation is the attempted saving of a man who has taken one wrong step, and whom the judge thinks can be set again upon the path of rectitude, if an opportunity for reform be given him before he is stigmatized with imprisonment and subjected to association with hardened convicts. Hence the judge is given the power to suspend sentence — a thing he could not do without legislation, after the decision in Ex parte United States, 242 U.S. 27, 37 S.Ct. 72, 61 L.Ed. 129, L.R.A.1917E, 1178, Ann.Cas.1917B, 355. The purpose is to avoid imprisonment so long as the guilty man gives promise of reform. Clearly, therefore, probation is not intended to be the equivalent of imprisonment. The aim of the statute is reformatory, not punitive, and its language carries this aim into effect. While we have found no decision under the Federal Probation Act which passes upon the contention that the prior probation must be credited upon a sentence of imprisonment imposed when probation is revoked, numerous cases under similar state statutes have adjudicated its lack of merit.”
  The District Court, however, relying on Hart v. Coiner (4th Cir. 1973) 483 F.2d 136, held that the activation of his original prison sentence by the revocation of his probation “deprived the [petitioner] of due process of law by subjecting him to additional punishment which has no rational relationship to the seriousness of the offenses which brought about revocation of the probation.” The error in this reasoning is obvious. The petitioner, upon revocation of his suspended sentence, suffers imprisonment under a sentence, not for the matters that may have caused the revocation of his probation, but for the crime of forgery, of which he confessed guilt. The validity of his sentence thus is to be measured by the crime for which it was imposed (i. e., forgery) and not by the numerous derelictions that induced the state court to revoke his probation. So measured, there is no constitutional unreasonableness in the sentence imposed, as was found by the Court in Hart v. Coiner, supra. Nor is the refusal to credit probation time against the prison sentence double jeopardy, or an extension or enlargement of the original sentence of seven years’ imprisonment, “since the period of probation is not counted” as a part of the period of imprisonment. A person does not serve a prison sentence while on probation or parole any more than he does while free on bail. In both instances, there are certain restrictions generally on the person’s movements but the person’s condition, as the Court observed in Morrissey v. Brewer (1972) 408 U.S. 471, 482, 92 S.Ct. 2593, 2601, 33 L.Ed.2d 484 is “very different from that of confinement in a prison.”
  The judgment of the District Court granting the petitioner habeas relief is accordingly reversed, and the District Court is directed to dismiss as without merit the petition.
  . § 15-200, General Statutes of North Carolina.
  . Hewett v. State of North Carolina (4th Cir. 1969) 415 F.2d 1316, 1319.
  See, also, Roberts v. United States (1943) 320 U.S. 264, 268, 64 S.Ct. 113, 88 L.Ed. 41 for similarity with federal practice under § 3653, 18 U.S.C. Credit is allowed, however, for those sentenced under the Youth Corrections Act. Viggiano v. United States (S.D.N.Y.1967) 274 F.Supp. 985, 986.
  . The record indicates forebearance on the part of the state court. There had been numerous claims of violations of probation on the part of the petitioner over the period but finally, its patience apparently exhausted, the state court revoked his probation. There was no claim made that the facts did not justify revocation under the North Carolina statute, though the District Court did find the statute exacting.
  . For cases dealing with probation: Anglin v. Johnston (7th Cir. 1974) 504 F.2d 1165, cert. denied, 420 U.S. 962, 95 S.Ct. 1353, 43 L.Ed.2d 440 (1975); United States v. Hawkins (5th Cir. 1974) 492 F.2d 771, 772, cert. denied, 419 U.S. 1052, 95 S.Ct. 629, 42 L.Ed.2d 647; United States v. Guzzi (3d Cir. 1960) 275 F.2d 725; Allen v. United States (6th Cir. 1953) 209 F.2d 353, cert. denied, 347 U.S. 970, 74 S.Ct. 782, 98 L.Ed. 1111; State v. Saavedra (1968) 5 Conn.Cir. 367, 253 A.2d 677, 680; Sommers v. Missouri (Mo. 1973) 498 S.W.2d 794; Royalty v. McAdory (Miss.1973) 278 So.2d 464; Wilson v. State of Texas (Tex.Cr.App.1971) 471 S.W.2d 416; Quintero v. Texas (Tex.Cr.App.1971) 469 S.W.2d 189; State of Arizona v. Tritle (1971) 15 Ariz.App. 325, 488 P.2d 681; State of Arizona v. Sanchez (1973) 19 Ariz.App. 253, 506 P.2d 644; State v. Lowdermilk (1964) 245 Ind. 93, 195 N.E.2d 476; State ex rel. Ahern v. Young (1966) 273 Minn. 240, 141 N.W.2d 15; People v. Gomez (1972) 24 Cal. App.3d 486, 100 Cal.Rptr. 896; State of Missouri v. Phillips (Mo.1969) 443 S.W.2d 139; Gehl v. People (1967) 161 Colo. 535, 423 P.2d 332.
  For cases dealing with parole: Zerbst v. Kidwell (1938) 304 U.S. 359, 58 S.Ct. 872, 82 L.Ed. 1399; Anderson v. Corail (1923) 263 U.S. 193, 44 S.Ct. 43, 68 L.Ed. 247; Hamrick v. Peyton (4th Cir. 1965) 349 F.2d 370, 372; Hutchison v. United States (10th Cir. 1971) 450 F.2d 930, 931; United States v. Farrell (8th Cir. 1937) 87 F.2d 957, 961; State v. Davis (1973) 19 N.C.App. 459, 199 S.E.2d 37, 38.
  A number of states have by statute provided for such credit. Typical is the Illinois Statute, which specifically provides that, “[T]ime served on probation or conditional discharge shall be credited by the court against a sentence of imprisonment or periodic imprisonment unless the court orders otherwise.” See People v. Taylor (1974) 21 Ill.App.3d 702, 315 N.E.2d 914 at 916, where the statute is quoted. The rule in Illinois was the traditional one prior to the adoption of this statute. People v. Harris (1972) 6 Ill.App.3d 487, 285 N.E.2d 583, 584. New Mexico and Montana have somewhat similar statutes. Cf., State of New Mexico v. Reinhart (1968) 79 N.M. 36, 439 P.2d 554; Barrows v. State of Montana (1970) 155 Mont. 522, 474 P.2d 145.
  .State v. Pietsch (1973) 109 Ariz. 261, 508 P.2d 337, 339; People v. Turner (1970) 129 Ill.App.2d 24, 262 N.E.2d 379, 380; Davis v. Parker (D.C.Del.1968) 293 F.Supp. 1388, 1394; State v. Everett (1913) 164 N.C. 399, 79 S.E. 274, 277; Johnson v. State (1959) 214 Ga. 818, 108 S.E.2d 313, 314.
  . Anglin v. Johnston, supra, 504 F.2d at 1168; Kaplan v. Hecht, supra, 24 F.2d at 665.
  . Thomas v. United States (10th Cir. 1964) 327 F.2d 795, 797, cert. denied, 377 U.S. 1000, 84 S.Ct. 1936, 12 L.Ed.2d 1051 (1964); King v. Commonwealth (1923) 246 Mass. 57, 140 N.E. 253, 254.
instruction: What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
  Intervenors who participated as parties at the courts of appeals should be counted as either appellants or respondents when it can be determined whose position they supported. For example, if there were two plaintiffs who lost in district court, appealed, and were joined by four intervenors who also asked the court of appeals to reverse the district court, the number of appellants should be coded as six.
  In some cases there is some confusion over who should be listed as the appellant and who as the respondent. This confusion is primarily the result of the presence of multiple docket numbers consolidated into a single appeal that is disposed of by a single opinion. Most frequently, this occurs when there are cross appeals and/or when one litigant sued (or was sued by) multiple litigants that were originally filed in district court as separate actions. The coding rule followed in such cases should be to go strictly by the designation provided in the title of the case. The first person listed in the title as the appellant should be coded as the appellant even if they subsequently appeared in a second docket number as the respondent and regardless of who was characterized as the appellant in the opinion.
  To clarify the coding conventions, consider the following hypothetical case in which the US Justice Department sues a labor union to strike down a racially discriminatory seniority system and the corporation (siding with the position of its union) simultaneously sues the government to get an injunction to block enforcement of the relevant civil rights law. From a district court decision that consolidated the two suits and declared the seniority system illegal but refused to impose financial penalties on the union, the corporation appeals and the government and union file cross appeals from the decision in the suit brought by the government. Assume the case was listed in the Federal Reporter as follows:
  United States of America,
  Plaintiff, Appellant
  v
  International Brotherhood of Widget Workers,AFL-CIO
  Defendant, Appellee.
  International Brotherhood of Widget Workers,AFL-CIO
  Defendants, Cross-appellants
  v
  United States of America.
  Widgets, Inc. & Susan Kuersten Sheehan, President & Chairman
  of the Board
  Plaintiff, Appellants,
  v
  United States of America,
  Defendant, Appellee.
  This case should be coded as follows:Appellant = United States, Respondents = International Brotherhood of Widget Workers Widgets, Inc., Total number of appellants = 1, Number of appellants that fall into the category "the federal government, its agencies, and officials" = 1, Total number of respondents = 3, Number of respondents that fall into the category "private business and its executives" = 2, Number of respondents that fall into the category "groups and associations" = 1.
  Your task is to identify the state of the first listed state or local government agency that is an appellant.
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