Case Name: GILBERT BROWN, Appellant, v. Joan PALMATEER, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary, Respondent
Court: Oregon Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Decision Date: 2002-10-16
Citations: 184 Or. App. 388
Docket Number: 98C-18983; A104238
Parties: GILBERT BROWN, Appellant, v. Joan PALMATEER, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary, Respondent.
Judges: Before Haselton, Presiding Judge, and Linder and Wollheim, Judges.
Reporter: Oregon Reports, Court of Appeals
Volume: 184
Pages: 388–389

Head Matter:
Submitted on record and briefs September 13,
reversed and remanded October 16, 2002
GILBERT BROWN, Appellant, v. Joan PALMATEER, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary, Respondent.
98C-18983; A104238
56 P3d 430
Harrison Latto filed the brief for appellant.
Hardy Myers, Attorney General, Michael D. Reynolds, Solicitor General, and Kelly Knivila, Assistant Attorney General, filed the brief for respondent.
Before Haselton, Presiding Judge, and Linder and Wollheim, Judges.
PER CURIAM

Opinion:
PER CURIAM
Plaintiff appeals the trial court's sua sponte dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. ORS 34.370(6). The trial court dismissed the petition after it took judicial notice of a different petition for a writ of habeas corpus that plaintiff had filed against defendant. To dismiss a petition for writ of habeas corpus, the trial court is limited to considering the content of the petition. Jones v. Armenakis, 146 Or App 198, 200, 932 P2d 99 (1997). Defendant concedes that the trial court erred in dismissing the petition sua sponte. We accept defendant's concession.
Reversed and remanded.