We live in Kafka's world
...and still have to pay rent.
I got the following email from a colleague on the California Appellate Defense Counsels' listserve asking for advice:
HELP! The California Department of Corrections is holding my client prisoner DESPITE an order for his release.
This is the case I've written about before, in which I got a reversal on the
main count and the client was resentenced on the remaining count to four years.
With time served and credits, he was only 7 days short of release on the day of
the resentencing hearing (7/16), so the judge made it CTS and ordered him
released. The clerk promised to expedite the paperwork.
So what did CDCR do when it got the paperwork? It ADDED four years to the
sentence on the count that was reversed and gave him a new release date of April
2012.
Anyone wonder why I'd rather be a writer?
I got the following email from a colleague on the California Appellate Defense Counsels' listserve asking for advice:
HELP! The California Department of Corrections is holding my client prisoner DESPITE an order for his release.
This is the case I've written about before, in which I got a reversal on the
main count and the client was resentenced on the remaining count to four years.
With time served and credits, he was only 7 days short of release on the day of
the resentencing hearing (7/16), so the judge made it CTS and ordered him
released. The clerk promised to expedite the paperwork.
So what did CDCR do when it got the paperwork? It ADDED four years to the
sentence on the count that was reversed and gave him a new release date of April
2012.
Anyone wonder why I'd rather be a writer?