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Three-judge panel refuses to stay order requiring California to reduce its prison population

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this Los Angeles Times piece, a "panel of federal judges today denied state officials? request to delay an order that they produce a plan to reduce California's prison population by 40,000 inmates."  Here is more: Aides to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have said they would take their request to the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday. In denying the state?s request, the judges said they had been ?more than patient with the state and its officials? and harshly criticized them for ?conflicting representations? in court that have forced the cases to drag on.  ?Further delays and obstruction will not well serve the people of the state, and will not be tolerated by this court,? wrote U.S. District Judges Thelton Henderson and Lawrence Karlton, and U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 03, 2009 (boomark / email).