# In Re Shaputis

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

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9504058

## 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 Chin
- **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

CHIN, J., Concurring.
I dissented in In re Lawrence (2008) 44 Cal.4th 1181 [ 82 Cal.Rptr.3d 169 , 190 P.3d 535 ] (Lawrence). I believed then, and still believe, the majority opinion in that case was ill considered. Lawrence is largely responsible for the confusion in the Courts of Appeal that today’s opinion seeks to ameliorate. However, my view in Lawrence did not prevail, and I now accept the majority view. For this reason, I concur entirely in this case.

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