# In Re Shaputis

> California Supreme Court · December 29, 2011 · 53 Cal. 4th 192

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9504057

## Case

- **Full name:** In Re RICHARD SHAPUTIS on Habeas Corpus
- **Court:** California Supreme Court
- **Decided:** December 29, 2011
- **Citations:** 53 Cal. 4th 192; 134 Cal. Rptr. 3d 86; 265 P.3d 253; 2011 Cal. LEXIS 13235
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Werdegar
- **Judges:** Corrigan, Werdegar, Chin, Liu
- **Cited by:** 99 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- explaining that in considering parole, “an implausible denial of guilt may support a finding of dangerousness . . . . In such a case it is not the failure to admit guilt that reflects a lack of insight, but the fact that the denial is factually unsupported or otherwise lacking…

## Opinion text

WERDEGAR, J., Concurring.
I concur in the majority opinion, with the exception of footnote 11 on pages 214—215. Because the issue addressed there is not before the court, and the majority’s comments are unnecessary to the resolution of the case, I would await a future case specifically posing that issue.

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