Court Opinion

ID: 9741375
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 20:54:21.053088+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:23.719619
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*246M. J. Kelly, P.J.
(concurring). I agree that a parolee in custody for alleged violation of probation becomes "available for return to a state penal institution”, MCL 791.240a(1); MSA 28.2310(1)(1), at the moment custody is obtained solely on the basis of the parole detainer. I am, however, reluctant to join in the majority’s analysis of the scope of the authority of the Recorder’s Court judge in entertaining a habeas corpus petition. Since, as the majority notes, both issues presented in this appeal are technically moot, I think it is sufficient for us to decide the important public question regarding a parolee’s hearing rights upon being detained on a charge of parole violation. Given our reversal of the lower court’s writ of habeas corpus on the merits of the question presented, I do not think it necessary for us to address the authority of the lower court to consider unsettled questions of law in the course of a habeas corpus proceeding.