In re Martinez

Opinion

STEWART, J.

In April 2013, Manuel Martinez, an inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison, filed a habeas corpus petition in Del Norte County Superior Court. Martinez challenged the December 2011 decision by Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials at Pelican Bay to “validate” him as a gang associate of the Mexican Mafia pursuant to former section 3378 of title 15 of the California Code of Regulations, 1 which validation led to his transfer to Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) for an indeterminate term. In May 2014, the trial court granted Martinez’s petition,…