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Parties Involved:
A. P. Kane
Respondent
Anthony Sneed
Petitioner

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ANTHONY SNEED,

Petitioner,

v.

A. P. KANE, warden,

Respondent. /

No. C 05-4109 SI (pr)

ORDER DISMISSING HABEAS

PETITION 

In 2004, the Board of Prison Terms (now known at the Board of Parole Hearings

("BPH")) held a hearing and found Anthony Sneed suitable for parole. On December 30, 2004,

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger reversed the BPH’s decision and found Sneed not suitable

for parole. Sneed then filed a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C.

§ 2254 challenging Governor Schwarzenegger’s decision. This court denied the petition. The

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit "reverse[d] the district court and remand[ed] with

instructions to grant the writ.” Sneed v. Kane, 9th Cir. No. 07-15061, 8/2/10 unpublished mem.

disp. at 2. A petition for panel rehearing and for rehearing en banc was denied by the Ninth

Circuit in an order filed November 12, 2010. The Ninth Circuit issued the mandate on

November 22, 2010. The clerk of this court sent a letter to spread the mandate on November 30,

2010.

Pursuant to the Ninth Circuit's decision, on December 1, 2010, this court granted the

petition for writ of habeas corpus and ordered that the BPH's 2004 decision finding Sneed

suitable for parole be reinstated and implemented. Docket # 26. Sneed was released on parole

on January 13, 2011. Docket # 28. 

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On June 9, 2015, the Ninth Circuit filed another order stating that, after this court granted

the habeas petition and Sneed was released, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the Ninth Circuit's

judgment and remanded the case for further consideration in light of Swarthout v. Cooke, 562

U.S. 216 (2011) (per curiam). Sneed v. Kane, 9th Cir. No. 07-15061, 6/9/15 unpublished mem.

disp. at 1. The Ninth Circuit remanded the case "to the district court with instructions to vacate

its order granting habeas corpus relief and dismiss the habeas petition." Id. The memorandum

disposition also acted as the mandate of the Ninth Circuit. Id. at 2. 

Accordingly, 

1. The clerk shall reopen this case.

2. The December 1, 2010 order granting habeas petition (Docket # 26) is VACATED.

3. The petition for writ of habeas corpus is DISMISSED.

4. The clerk shall enter judgment and then close the file.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: June 24, 2015 

 SUSAN ILLSTON

United States District Judge

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