A Model Prisoner's Model Prisoner may be released on Parole

Sullivan committed a violent crime and was sentenced to 7 years to life. He had been in front of the parole board 16 or 17 times. During his incarceration he was the model prisoner's model prisoners. He has had not been disciplined in 23 years, one petty infraction.

Sullivan had many talents as he had been working on rehab and learned several professions while he was in prison. His psychiatrist found little reason that he would not be a model member of the community. Everyone had said that he was a model prisoner's model prisoner. But the prison parole board found that because of the violence at the time that the crime was done and the usage of a gun that he would be a risk. On further investigation it became clear that gun would not have worked and Sullivan knew it, but the Parole board still harked back to the gun. Sullivan also showed that he had job plans, a place to stay and had been doing his programs.

The Habeus Corpus issued significantly on the findings that Sullivan was a model prisoner, that at some point due to the passage of time unchangeable facts become less important; if we have any belief in
the rehabilitation process and in the competence of people who say that they find nothing
to suggest that the prisoner is a risk. At some time the model prisoner's model prisoner has to be taken serious and this is the time.

This case is only made more interesting by the fact that Sullivan did his Habeus Corpus petition by himself


Sullivan v. Ayers, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 103413 (N.D. Cal. Oct. 21, 2009)