Is a habeas corpus proceeding civil or criminal for other purposes?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from In re Scott, 129 Cal.Rptr.2d 605, 29 Cal.4th 783, 61 P.3d 402 (Cal. 2003):
6. We need not, and do not, decide whether a habeas corpus proceeding is civil or criminal for other purposes. (See In re Head (1986) 42 Cal.3d 223, 226, fn. 4, 228 Cal.Rptr. 184, 721 P.2d 65.) It is a special proceeding and not entirely analogous to either category. (People v. Duvall, supra, 9 Cal.4th at pp. 477-178, fn. 4, 37 Cal.Rptr.2d 259, 886 P.2d 1252.)
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