LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge in Los Angeles allowed reports indicating inmates might have been wrongly convicted to languish for years, saying he was either drafting an opinion or there were many documents to review, it was reported Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson has had the opportunity to rule on three cases in which evidence could exonerate the inmates, but he failed to do so, The Daily Journal said.
An email message left for Anderson's clerk was not immediately returned.
Habeas corpus petitions allow state prisoners to seek review in federal court. There is no set time frame in which a judge must rule, but legal experts interviewed by the newspaper …
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