United States Ninth Circuit

In a petition for habeas relief from defendant's first-degree murder conviction, judgment of the district court granting relief is reversed where petition is foreclosed by the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Swarthout v. Cooke, 131 S. Ct. 859, 863 (2011), holding that “the responsibility for assuring that the constitutionally adequate procedures governing California’s parole system are properly applied rests with California courts, and is no part of the Ninth Circuit’s business”.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/06/2011
• Published 06/06/2011

Judges

• WALLACE

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Krista L. Pollard, Marc Elliot Grossman