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HARRINGTON v. RICHTER

No. 09-587.

131 S.Ct. 770 (2011)

562 U.S. 86

Kelly HARRINGTON, Warden, Petitioner, v. Joshua RICHTER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 19, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry J. Colombo, Sacramento, CA, for petitioner.

Clifford Gardner, San Francisco, CA, for respondent.

Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General of California, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Donald E. De Nicola, Deputy State Solicitor General, Michael P. Farrell, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Ward A. Campbell, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Harry Joseph Colombo, Counsel of Record, Deputy Attorney General, Sacramento, for Petitioner.

Cliff Gardner, Counsel of Record, Catherine White, Oakland, CA, Edward Swanson, Swanson and McNamara, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.

Justice KENNEDY delivered the opinion of the Court.

The writ of habeas corpus stands as a safeguard against imprisonment of those held in violation of the law. Judges must be vigilant and independent in reviewing petitions for the writ, a commitment that entails substantial judicial resources. Those resources are diminished and misspent, however, and confidence in the writ and the law it vindicates undermined, if there is judicial disregard for the sound and established...

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