Legal Opinion
In re Bernal
California Court of Appeal
Decided August 7, 1986No. D004704PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BUTLER, J.
Jaime Bernal de la Parra (Bernal) seeks review of the trial court order finding him in contempt of court for refusing to answer inter*141rogatories and incarcerating him for 15 days.1 In order to review the petition, we released Bernal from custody; he had then served 10 days in the county jail. We now conclude the petition warrants extraordinary relief because the contempt proceedings are jurisdictionally infirm and the offenses do not warrant imprisonment.
Habeas corpus is a suitable remedy to review a contempt citation. (In re Buckley (1973) 10 Cal.3d 237 [110 Cal.Rptr. 121,…
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