Parolee’s Arrest Years After Hawaii Office Loses Contact Upheld

Hawaii officials acted lawfully when they detained a woman on parole after officials were unable to locate her for seven years, according to the Ninth Circuit.

The seven-year delay in Elizabeth Cornel’s arrest didn’t violate the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because she was “largely responsible for the delay,” according to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Her arrest also wasn’t unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment because the parole office reasonably believed she violated her parole, the court affirmed June 10.

Cornel was evicted from her apartment in 2011 while she was on parole, and ...