Ellhamer v. Wilson

Full title: William ELLHAMER, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Lawrence E. WILSON…

Court: United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Date published: Jul 7, 1971

445 F.2d 856 (9th Cir. 1971)

Opinion

Nos. 25919, 25953.

July 7, 1971.

James B. Cuneo, Deputy Atty. Gen. (argued), Evelle J. Younger, Cal. Atty. Gen., John T. Murphy, Deputy Atty. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for appellants.

John H. Colteaux (argued), of Ackeret Colteaux, San Rafael, Cal., for appellee, William Ellhamer.

Alice Daniel, William B. Turner, San Francisco, Cal., for amicus curiae.

Emil Eisenhardt (argued), James L. Browning, U.S. Atty., David R. Urdan, Chief Asst. U.S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for appellee, Charles Hinnington.

Before CHAMBERS and KOELSCH, Circuit Judges, and von der HEYDT, District Judge.

PER CURIAM:

The orders granting writs of habeas corpus to Ellhamer and Hinnington, California state prisoners, are reversed. The district court will enter orders denying the writs.

We are asked to overrule our cases which have upheld California in not providing counsel on parole revocation hearings. This we decline to do. See High Pine v. Montana, 9 Cir., 439 F.2d 1093; Lincoln v. California Adult Authority, 9 Cir., 435 F.2d 133; Mead v. California Adult Authority, 9 Cir., 415 F.2d 767.