Traverse Filing Delayed Pending Access to Legal Visits; Jarvis on Indefinite Hunger Strike

LEGAL UPDATE: The filing of Jarvis’ traverse (initally due late September) has now been delayed until late October. The traverse is the reply to the Attorney General’s response (filed in August 2021) to his federal appeal brief for the habeas petition (filed in November 2020). The overall case timeline has been pushed back, with the motion for evidentiary hearing anticipated now in early 2022.

Covid and other administrative delays have prevented Jarvis’ legal team from obtaining timely access to confidential and consistent legal calls and visits with Jarvis at San Quentin. Legal confidentiality is an especially sensitive matter, considering the crime for which he is incarcerated involves a San Quentin correctional officer.

Jarvis declared an official, indefinite hunger strike starting today, asking for full, equal, and steady protections under the law, including timely access to counsel. Jarvis reports recent incidents of harrassment by San Quentin authorities in the form of illegal tampering of his incoming legal mail, and false information given by S.Q. visitation staff to a particular guest leading to a cancelled visit with that guest. While the situation is being remedied by Kirkland & Ellis and San Quentin’s administration, Jarvis declares, ”Every day I am here is another day I don’t have to be here— as an innocent man! Even one extra day is one day too many!“