California Court of Appeal

Grant of habeas petition to reverse disciplinary action imposed on petitioner by prison officials for possessing a weapon in violation of prison regulations is reversed where the trial court's ruling was erroneous given the extraordinarily deferential standard of review that applies when a court reviews a challenge to prison disciplinary action on federal due process grounds.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/14/2006
• Published 08/14/2006

Judges

• IRION, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, James M. Humes, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Frances T. Grunder, Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland and Michelle Des Jardins, Deputy Attorneys General, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Waldemar D. Halka, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Respondent.