By Cherrie Anne E. Villahermosa
Variety News Staff

CITING lack of jurisdiction, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday dismissed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by a man convicted of two counts of obstruction of a court order.
John S. Pangelinan and his lawyer Steven Pixley filed the petition.
A writ of habeas corpus is a judicial mandate to a prison official ordering that an inmate be brought to the court so it can be determined whether or not that person is imprisoned lawfully and whether or not he should be released from custody.
Pangelinan requested that Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld of the Ninth Circuit review his petition.
But the court said that “no motion for reconsideration, modification or clarifications of this order shall be filed or entertained.”
Pangelinan was indicted for two counts of obstruction of a court’s order for writing a letter to the editor that warned others not to buy his land which was supposed to be auctioned of as ordered by the district court.
Pangelinan was found guilty by a federal jury and was sentenced to one year of imprisonment.