California Court of Appeal

In case where petitioner is serving multiple, indeterminate life sentences in an institution located outside of California as a participant in the Federal Witness Protection Program, petition for writ of habeas corpus is granted primarily where: 1) petitioner has the statutory right to appear in person at his "lifers hearing"; 2) regulations barring petitioner from appearing in person at his or her parole hearing are void; and 3) respondent violated petitioner's right to due process by failing to honor its specific agreement that petitioner's hearings for parole consideration and determination of sentence would be conducted on the same basis as if he were in a California institution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/04/2008
• Published 02/04/2008

Judges

• CANTIL-SAKAUYE, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael Satris, Bolinas, under appointment by the Court of Appeal for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Yun Hwa Harper, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.