Donald Edward Mozingo v. Walter E. Craven, Warden, Folsom State Prison

Donald Edward Mozingo, a California state prisoner, petitioned the district court for a writ of habeas corpus. He complained that at a Parole and Community Service hearing, which resulted in the suspension of his parole for engaging in a bar room brawl, and in a subsequent parole revocation hearing on March 13, 1970, based on the same charge, he was denied the asserted due process right of confronting and cross-examining the witnesses who testified against him.

After a hearing the district court ordered that a writ issue unless, within sixty days, the warden and the State of California…