Brown's office delays action on Lisker

Bruce Lisker's lawyer says that a representative of Attorney General Jerry Brown's office asked to delay consideration of Lisker's legal status until mid-November — in other words, after the election. Lisker, freed from prison a year ago after a judge decided he was wrongly convicted of murdering his mother, is facing the threat of a return to prison because the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in another case that there is no "actual innocence" exception to a rule that requires inmates to file their appeals earlier. The AG's office had then begun the process of getting a judge to order Lisker back to prison. After news broke, Brown's office said they would take another look at the case. Lisker's lawyer opposes the delay being requested now. Read Iris Schneider's series on Lisker at Native Intelligence.