Legal Opinion
Kenneth Pearson v. Madelene Muntz
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 24, 2010No. 08-55728PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER AND OPINION
OPINION
2Per curiam
California state prisoner Kenneth Pearson filed an action for a writ of habeas corpus in the district court on September 22, 2005, asserting that the Governor, in reversing the Parole Board, violated his due process rights by denying him parole absent “some evidence” supporting the decision. The magistrate judge’s Report and Recommendation, which the district court adopted in full, noted that “the last reasoned state court opinions upholding the Governor’s reversal of the[Parole] Board’s finding of Petitioner’s parole suitability rested on the sole ground of…
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