IN RE SAGIN

No. H044767.

39 Cal.App.5th 570 (2019)

In re JACK EDWARD SAGIN on Habeas Corpus.

Court of Appeals of California, Sixth District.

August 30, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shearman & Sterling, Emily V. Griffen , John A. Nathanson (pro hac vice), Donna Zamora-Stevens , Lisa Valenti-Jordan ; Northern California Innocence Project at Santa Clara University School of Law, Linda Starr , Melissa O'Connell and Kelley Fleming for Petitioner Jack Edward Sagin.

Cooley, Kyle C. Wong , Max Alderman , Reece W. Trevor , Maureen Alger and Adam Gershenson (pro hac vice) for The California Innocence Project, The Loyola Law School Project for the Innocent, After Innocence and The Innocence Network as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner Jack Edward Sagin.

Xavier Becerra , Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey M. Laurence , Assistant Attorney General, Laurence K. Sullivan and Catherine A. Rivlin , Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent the People.


OPINION

Jack Edward Sagin has been in prison for over 30 years. Sentenced to life without parole after being convicted of murder in 1986, he has petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, asserting that newly available DNA evidence shows he was not at the scene of the crime. As we will explain, we find it more likely than...

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