Johns v. Shulsen

This Court reviewed the denial of plaintiff’s previous petition for a writ of habeas corpus and issued its opinion affirming the trial court’s order on April 21, 1986. The opinion may be found at Johns v. Shulsen, 717 P.2d 1336 (Utah 1986). The reader is referred thereto for the facts underlying plaintiff’s incarceration and revocation of his parole.

On May 20, 1986, plaintiff applied for a writ of habeas corpus to the federal district court for Utah. However, the federal magistrate ruled that the petition was a mixture of claims on which state remedies had been exhausted and those which had…