By Cherrie Anne E. Villahermosa
Variety News Staff

THE federal court has denied the petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by a man convicted of obstruction of a court order.
Designated Federal Judge David A. Wiseman yesterday said the petition of John S. Pangelinan, which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth has Circuit has already dismissed, was incomplete.
Pangelinan filed his petition on Oct. 4, 2006.
The federal court issued an order regarding Pangelinan’s writ of habeas corpus on Oct. 23, 2006 and permitted him to file the deficient items by Nov. 6, 2006 at 3:30 p.m.
Wiseman said Pangelinan failed to submit the deficient items.
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 filed his petition himself and was not represented by his court-appointed lawyer Steven Pixley.
The lawyer represented Pangelinan in the criminal trial that resulted in his conviction on Sept. 27, 2006 on two counts of obstruction of a court order.
On Jan. 4, 2007, Wiseman sentenced Pangelinan to one year of imprisonment.
Pangelinan also filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Ninth Circuit which dismissed it for lack of jurisdiction.
Pangelinan was indicted on two counts of obstruction of a court order for writing letters to the editor warning the public not to buy his land which was supposed to be auctioned off as ordered by the federal court.