IN RE PALMER

No. S256149.

10 Cal.5th 959 (2021)

In re WILLIAM M. PALMER II on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California.

January 28, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O'Melveny & Myers, Geoffrey Yost , Anna Pletcher , Melody Drummond Hansen , Megan Havstad , Cara L. Gagliano , Micah Chavin , Michael J. Pierce , Anna Schneider and Mehwish Shaukat for Petitioner William M. Palmer II.

Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, Marisol Orihuela and Miriam Gohara for The Prison Law Office, Vincent Schiraldi and David Muhammad as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner William M. Palmer II.

Keker, Van Nest & Peters, Sharif E. Jacob and Taylor Reeves for Professor Vincent Schiraldi, Columbia University School of Social Work, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner William M. Palmer II.

Munger, Tolles & Olson, William D. Temko , Sara A. McDermott and Michele C. Nielsen for Human Rights Watch and The Pacific Juvenile Defender Center as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner William M. Palmer II.

Kristen Bell for The Sentencing Project as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner William M. Palmer II.

William Vogel as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner William M. Palmer II.

Elbert Lee Vaught IV as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner William M. Palmer II.

Xavier Becerra , Attorney General, Lance E. Winters , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Phillip J. Lindsay , Assistant Attorney General, Sara J. Romano , Amanda J. Murray and Denise A. Yates , Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent Board of Parole Hearings.

Mark Zahner and Richard J. Sachs for California District Attorneys Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondents Board of Parole Hearings and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.


OPINION

Judgments about the proper punishment for a crime are generally entrusted to the People's democratically elected representatives (see Gregg v. Georgia (1976) 428 U.S. 153, 175-176 [49 L.Ed.2d 859, 96 S.Ct. 2909] (plur. opn. of Stewart, J.))—and, in California...

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