Douglas L. Rhodes v. Walter E. Craven, Warden, Folsom State Prison
Douglas L. Rhodes v. Walter E. Craven, Warden, Folsom State Prison
Dissenting Opinion
(dissenting in part):
I agree the appeal should be dismissed as moot. However, I do not join in the Court’s legal advice to the petitioner in this habeas corpus proceeding. It may or may not be in agreement with such advice as he may receive from an employed or appointed attorney. That will be determined by this or some other court at the proper time.
Opinion of the Court
ORDER
It appearing that, in the above-entitled “habeas corpus” proceeding appellant does not question his conviction or sentence but seeks injunctive relief and release from custody on the ground that prison officials at California State Prison, Folsom, refuse to give him access to his personal legal books and papers assertedly taken from him at the Correctional Facility, Soledad, California; and it appearing that, since the submission of this appeal on January 5, 1970, appellant has been paroled from California State Prison, Folsom, upon the condition that he go to his Nebraska “hold” to serve an outstanding three-year sentence in that state; and it appearing that, by
Ordered, that this appeal is dismissed as moot.
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