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 Clearwater Criminal Defense Lawyers note that the original issue came to Judge Scriven as a habeas corpus petition, which is a petition from a Florida inmate asking a Federal Judge to release him from prison because he shouldn't be there. [read post]
19 Aug 2010, 5:17 am by South Florida Lawyers
The appellate court also had harsh words for Abbey Boklan, the Nassau County Court trial judge in the case, who has since retired. [read post]
9 Jul 2009, 11:53 am
  Here is how the per curiam majority opinion starts: Petitioner-Appellant Michael Williams appeals from the district court's denial of his habeas corpus petition brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. [read post]
1 Dec 2017, 2:45 pm
We then filed a habeas corpus petition on his behalf in court in Washington, demanding that the government justify the man’s detention. [read post]
21 Apr 2023, 4:30 am by Michael C. Dorf
DorfI recently wrote a Verdict column on whether a person imprisoned on conviction of a crime can serve while in prison and an accompanying blog post on whether, if such a president were imprisoned pursuant to a state criminal conviction, he could successfully challenge his custody through a federal habeas corpus petition. [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 4:17 am by Edith Roberts
Dunn, in which the justices will decide whether an Arkansas defendant in a capital case whose mental health was at issue was entitled to assistance from a psychiatrist independent of the prosecution, concluding that “the Supreme Court may well decide that the Ake precedent is ambiguous, the Oklahoma court’s decision is not an unreasonable application of it, and that is all that Congress has authorized a federal habeas corpus court to decide. [read post]
16 Jul 2014, 7:54 pm
Defendants reason that the prescribed, deferential and highly context sensitive inquiry into the adequacy and particular effect of counsel's performance cannot occur until a prosecution has concluded in a conviction, and that, once there is a conviction, the appropriate avenues of relief are direct appeals and the various other established means of challenging a conviction, such as CPL article 440 motions and petitions for writs of habeas corpus or coram nobis. [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 8:42 am by Steve Hall
The Office of Capital Writs was created to handle the second appeal — a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, designed to reinvestigate each case to make sure the right person will be executed, the wrong person won't be, and that the verdict was obtained without violating the U.S. and Texas constitutions. [read post]
16 Jun 2007, 3:51 am
Konteh    Northern District of Ohio at ToledoHABEAS CORPUS: MISTRIALALAN E. [read post]
11 Feb 2014, 3:39 pm by Lyle Denniston
But the prisoners will get a further chance to try to make their case, because the majority ruled for the first time that the right of detained individuals to seek a writ of habeas corpus to challenge their confinement also extends to claims that the actual conditions behind bars are illegal, and thus make the detention itself illegal. [read post]
10 Feb 2023, 6:00 am by Jennifer González
The Ohio Court refused their application for writs of habeas corpus, upholding the constitutionality of the Act. [read post]
24 Jul 2007, 8:21 pm
Furthermore, although the contemnor can seek judicial review by means of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the scope of such review may be relatively limited, compared to the plenary review accorded by the courts in cases of conviction under the criminal contempt statute. . . . [read post]
8 Feb 2007, 2:00 am
The prosecution, overall, is better-funded than the defense side for litigating death penalty cases from the trial stage to the habeas corpus stage. [read post]
21 Nov 2011, 8:33 am by Benjamin Wittes
Circuit Court in the Latif case has eviscerated the right of habeas corpus provided to Guantanamo detainees by the Supreme Court in Boumedienne. [read post]
31 Mar 2014, 5:28 pm by Stephen Bilkis
The defendant has filed a writ of habeas corpus and a writ of error corum nobis. [read post]