Opinion
No. 2:04-cv-00584-MCE-JFM HC, No. 2:05-cv-01870-MCE-KJM HC, No. 2:05-cv-01871-MCE-KJM HC.
February 24, 2011
ORDER
On November 16, 2010, Respondents filed a Renewed Application to Stay this Court's March 18, 2009 Order in light of intervening authority and given its pending appeal of the Court's decision granting parole to the Ninth Circuit.
This Court initially granted a stay for sixty days given Respondent's appeal of its Order finding Petitioner suitable for parole so that Respondents could pursue their appeal. On May 26, 2009, before that sixty day-period expired, Respondents sought for and obtained a stay from the Ninth Circuit itself. Then, on July 26, 2010, the Ninth Circuit granted Petitioner's motion to lift its stay of the Court's March 18, 2009. Subsequently, Petitioner was released on parole.
Respondents now ask the Court to again revisit the issue of parole despite the fact that the last two orders concerning parole have come from the Ninth Circuit and not from this Court. In light of the pending appeal and the issuance of those orders, Respondents have not demonstrated why this Court, as opposed to the Ninth Circuit, is the proper court for hearing any further challenge to the propriety of Petitioner's parole. Moreover, to the extent Respondents' challenge before this Court is predicated on intervening Ninth Circuit authority (namely, its decision inHaggard v. Curry, 623 F.3d 1035 (9th Cir. 2010), the holding of that case is now subject to an even more recent Supreme Court case, Swarthout v. Cooke, 131 S. Ct. 859 (decided January 24, 2011). Indeed, Respondents have recognized that change by filing, on February 9, 2011, a Motion to Reinstate Stay with the Ninth Circuit itself, citing Swarthout.
Given that more recent motion, as well as this Court's view that the matter should be decided under the circumstances by the Ninth Circuit in any event, Respondents' Renewed Application for Stay filed here on November 16, 2010 (ECF No. 66) is hereby DENIED, without prejudice to allow the Respondents' Motion to Reinstate Stay to be heard and decided by the Ninth Circuit.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated: February 24, 2011