JAMES, PETITIONER


410 Mass. 674 (1991)

575 N.E.2d 38

LELAND EARL JAMES, petitioner.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

July 15, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Apfel (Kenneth J. Parsigian with him) for the petitioner.

David Slade for Department of Correction.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, O'CONNOR, & GREANEY, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

In this proceeding, the petitioner (James) seeks a writ of habeas corpus challenging the lawfulness of a Governor's warrant issued for his arrest at the request of the State of California. James has several months remaining to be served on a California sentence. James's single argument is that he is not a person described in G.L.c. 276, § 12 (1990 ed.), whom the Governor lawfully may cause to be arrested and surrendered to another State.

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