California Court of Appeal

Board of Parole Hearings is no longer given the deference which courts once thought it was entitled. In a case where appellant was sentenced to an indeterminable term of 15 years to life in state prison for a murder incident in 1992, a petition for writ of habeas corpus is granted where the evidence provided at a 2006 parole hearing does not support the Board's finding that petitioner was unsuitable for parole at that time.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/26/2008
• Published 03/26/2008

Judges

• SCOTLAND, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael Satris, Attorney at Law, Bolinas, CA, for Ronald Singler., Office of the State Attorney General, Sacramento, CA, for the People.