SENTENO v. California

ORDER GRANTING 28 U.S.C. § 2254 HABEAS PETITION

JANIS L. SAMMARTINO, District Judge.

Petitioner Phillip Angel Senteno (“Senteno”), a state prisoner confined at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison (“SATF”), Corcoran, proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, seeks a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 writ of habeas corpus. He is serving an indeterminate life sentence for murder, robbery, and assault following his jury trial in January 1983. He challenges the Governor’s reversal of the Board of Parole Hearing’s 2006 decision to grant him parole. He raises four due process grounds for…