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7 Jan 2019, 9:08 am
He suspended the writ of habeas corpus, something the Constitution seems to vest in Congress in cases of rebellion and invasion. [read post]
28 Nov 2018, 9:30 pm
Federal habeas corpus lawsuits provide a means for inmates to challenge errors in their original criminal proceedings. [read post]
24 Aug 2018, 12:05 pm
That was the reason Texas created a new form of habeas corpus writ - discussed recently in the Texas Tribune in the context of shaken-baby cases - to allow redress when the legal system bases convictions on junk science. [read post]
7 Jul 2018, 12:29 pm
For example, several of the inmate’s arguments centered on the fact that he was tried in federal, rather than state, court because one of the murders took place in a national forest in Michigan – which does not have the death penalty. [read post]
28 Jun 2018, 2:48 pm
National Resources Defense Council. [read post]
29 Apr 2018, 7:03 pm
Here's the latest episode of the Reasonably Suspicious podcast for April 2018. [read post]
19 Apr 2018, 2:40 pm
One contributing factor to delay in this case (though by no means the primary reason) is that the Habeas Corpus Resource Center had a fanatical investigator with a propensity to forge affidavits. [read post]
16 Mar 2018, 3:52 am
If the bond amount set is too high, the defense lawyer can file a motion for a writ of habeas corpus to get the bond amount reduced. [read post]
6 Nov 2017, 2:04 pm
For a third or subsequent offense a person shall not serve a term of imprisonment at an Intoxicated Driver Resource Center as provided in subsection (f). [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 1:31 pm
In addition, the practice advisory contains practice tips and resources, including three sample habeas corpus petitions for seeking the release of clients detained at U.S. airports. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 12:04 pm
On the other hand, he has also been willing to deny qualified immunity to police officers in Section 1983 cases alleging the use of excessive force and other constitutional violations, and he has rebuked a school district for attempting to avoid providing equal access to school resources to a gay-straight alliance. [read post]
24 Sep 2016, 5:04 am
We're at the front end of a period of utter chaos in this nation's forensic labs.Then there's the fact that, even where Texas law is ahead of the game, the Court of Criminal Appeals has abdicated its responsibility to interpret it as written to give it force: The Legislature created a "junk science writ" for wrongly convicted defendants to get habeas corpus relief when their conviction was primarily based on junk science. [read post]
10 Jul 2016, 10:44 am
This week, we’ll be having Jonathan Abel, who works as an attorney at the Habeas Corpus Resource Center, but who wrote the article on which the posts are based when he was a fellow at Stanford’s Constitutional Law Center. [read post]
4 Apr 2016, 9:30 am
This reality means that you need institutions with a long view, with the resources, commitment, and staying power to persist over the long term. [read post]
23 Mar 2016, 12:17 pm
In Habeas Corpus Resource Center v. [read post]
23 Mar 2016, 10:38 am
[*Ed. note: The Arizona FPD is a party to this case.]Habeas Corpus Resource Center v. [read post]
22 Nov 2015, 1:30 pm
That number would be pretty good for some free-world organizations; for an all-prisoner group, it's downright impressive.A lot of the Prison Justice League's organizing work and litigation activity has centered around the Estelle Unit, where they're engaged in several lawsuits (and about which they produced this report last year on excessive force at the unit). [read post]
15 Nov 2015, 2:21 pm
Jones’s counsel—the Habeas Corpus Resource Center, which continues to represent him in this federal habeas proceeding—filed his state habeas petition.Six and a half years later, and over five years after the petition was fully briefed, on March 11, 2009 the California Supreme Court denied Mr. [read post]
5 Sep 2015, 8:26 am
And while people may be entitled to court-appointed lawyers to get DNA retested or the results recalculated, the state has no viable mechanism for matching lawyers to defendants and, anyway, few criminal defense lawyers have experience filing habeas corpus writs - a point Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Barbara Hervey emphasized at the TCJIU. [read post]
4 Jun 2015, 3:03 pm
The applicants were Mitchell Sims, the "slice of murder" killer sentenced to death in two states, represented at taxpayer expense by the Habeas Corpus Resource Center, and Michael Morales and Tiequon Cox, the men who murdered my clients' family members, represented by David Senior and, curiously, Jenner & Block, contra bono publico. [read post]
