Jasso

Frederick Jasso, defendant and appellant in superior court cases Nos. A-228982 and NDA-8728 and the subject of the habeas corpus proceedings, was an outpatient from the California Rehabilitation Center (CRC) on January 2, 1968. He had been committed (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 3051) to the CRC following his conviction for illegal possession of heroin (Health & Saf. Code, § 11500), but had been released on outpatient status on October 11, 1967.

On January 2, 1968, Allan H. Wiggenhorn, a state parole agent, received a telephone call from a person identifying himself as Arthur Garcia. Garcia stated that Jasso lived at a certain address in Los Angeles and inquired whether Jasso was under the supervision of that particular parole office.

Wiggenhorn checked the office files and ascertained that Jasso was a person under supervision of his office. He further found in the file a report that Jasso’s present whereabouts was unknown, that he was “an absconder” “in violation of his parole” who had failed to report for a narcotics’ testing in November 1967, and who had changed his residence without his supervising agent’s approval. The file also included an all-points bulletin for Jasso…