Supreme Court of California

Court of Appeal's denial of petition for habeus corpus is affirmed where defendant is ineligible for habeas corpus relief as he is no longer in actual or constructive California custody as a result of his 1989 conviction, but is instead in federal custody in another state.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/16/2009
• Published 03/16/2009

Judges

• WERDEGAR, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Rodney Richard Jones, Mendocino, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Reed Smith, Paul D. Fogel, San Francisco;  and Linda Starr, for Northern California Innocence Project as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson and Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Assistant Attorney General, Stan Helfman, Laurence K. Sullivan, Christopher J. Wei and Jeffrey M. Laurence, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.