1. Home
  2. Browse Decisions
  3. F.2d
  4. 930 F.2d
  5. 930 F.2d 773 (1991)
 

PICRIN-PERON v. RISON

No. 89-55781.

930 F.2d 773 (1991)

Lorenzo Alberto PICRIN-PERON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Richard H. RISON, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided April 18, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles D. Weisselberg, William J. Genego, and Dennis E. Curtis, and Leslie Davis and Maria Matan (law student interns), Post-Conviction Justice Project, University of Southern California Law Center, Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioner-appellant.

Wayne D. Collins, Leonard Miles, Clare O'Brien and Jennifer Bard, Shearman & Sterling, New York City, and Arthur C. Helton, New York City, for amicus curiae, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.

Before BOOCHEVER, BEEZER and TROTT, Circuit Judges.

BEEZER, Circuit Judge:

Richard Rison, as warden of the Federal Correctional Institution at Terminal Island in San Pedro, California, asks us to dismiss this appeal from the denial of Picrin-Peron's petition for a writ of habeas corpus claiming that the case is moot. We dismiss.

I

Lorenzo Alberto Picrin-Peron is a native and citizen of Cuba. In 1979, he applied to the U.S. Interests Section of the Swiss Embassy in Cuba for permission to come to the...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases