Lutton
Lutton v. U.S. Parole Commission
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 REX M. LUTTON, Case No. 21-cv-01679-SI
Petitioner,
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
v.
U.S. PAROLE COMMISSION, Respondent.
12 Rex Lutton, a federal inmate currently housed at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California, filed this pro se action for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. Venue is proper in this district because he is confined in a county in this district. Id. at § 2241(d). 16 BACKGROUND Rex Lutton first was sentenced so long ago that he is subject to the federal parole system. He currently is in custody awaiting a parole rescission hearing. He alleges the following in his petition for writ of habeas corpus: Lutton received a 30-year sentence in 1984 in the Eastern District of California for bank robbery and escape. Following his original release on an unstated date, he suffered additional federal convictions, including a 2005 conviction in the Northern District of California for…