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8 Mar 2011, 5:01 am by zshapiro
Under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) a writ of habeas corpus in Federal Court is only timely if it is filed within one year of the case becoming final on direct appeal. [read post]
26 Mar 2013, 4:41 am by Gritsforbreakfast
John Whitmire's SB 344, which would expand access to habeas corpus relief for people falsely convicted based on junk science, passed the Texas Senate yesterday on a 28-3 vote. [read post]
18 Jun 2015, 4:47 pm by Kent Scheidegger
Ayala, the Supreme Court today once again touched on the question of how the habeas corpus reforms enacted by Congress in 1996 interact with the limitations created in case law in the two decades prior.Ayala claimed that the prosecution exercised peremptory challenges of jurors based on racial bias. [read post]
23 Apr 2011, 6:06 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" The Court of Criminal Appeals recently approved his habeas corpus writ based on "actual innocence" grounds, and he's filed a civil rights lawsuit (pdf) in federal court. [read post]
20 Feb 2007, 3:01 am
Schiever case from 1759, pages 14-15, in which the court entertained the habeas petition of an alien detainee brought to Liverpool.). [read post]
27 Mar 2009, 9:13 am
March 24-25, 2009 CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, HABEAS CORPUS Knowles v. [read post]
21 Sep 2008, 11:55 am
The girl's parents filed a habeas corpus petition in Muzaffargarh seeking their release. [read post]
4 Feb 2013, 4:16 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
A few odds and ends:Whitmire files habeas fix on false scientific testimony The Texas Tribune reported that Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitimire filed legislation today to expand access to habeas corpus relief for defendants convicted based on false and discredited scientific testimony, a bill that's a legislative priority of my employers at the Innocence Project of Texas. [read post]
30 Nov 2014, 8:56 pm by Kurt T. Koehler
  Criminal appeals and some interlocutory appeals take priority, but after conviction criminal cases can take far longer than civil cases where collateral habeas corpus review is sought especially in death penatly cases. [read post]
14 May 2010, 9:45 am
In so doing, it cited case law familiar to those of us who labor in this field. [read post]
16 May 2011, 1:04 pm by Lovechilde
Under these proposals, habeas would be available only in capital cases and those cases in which new evidence of innocence has been found. [read post]
28 Dec 2011, 8:49 am by Raffaela Wakeman
His singular question is whether the Federal Rules of Evidence apply to habeas corpus cases brought by Guantanamo detainees. [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 5:30 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
"As the Second Circuit says that we must apply the law as it stood in 2004 and not in 1997, this means that the Second Circuit grants Rivera's habeas corpus petition. [read post]
23 Aug 2010, 3:52 am by Russ Bensing
Plummer, where Ahmad had filed a habeas corpus petition with the 1st District arguing that his bond was excessive. [read post]
10 Dec 2006, 7:30 pm
Two potentially present rather important unresolved habeas corpus related questions. [read post]
15 May 2008, 12:59 am
Three FLDS fathers who are in monogamous marriages to women who are of legal age filed habeas corpus petitions in a court in San Antonio seeking return of their children. [read post]
16 Dec 2008, 10:15 pm
  Oral argument is scheduled for January 7 on a motion to dismiss that raises many of the same questions as did the Ruzatullah case--in particular, whether detainees at Bagram are entitled to habeas corpus review. [read post]
16 Jun 2008, 11:55 pm
University of Chicago Law professor Richard Epstein discusses the cases. [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 9:01 pm
United States (06-1196), asking whether the Constitution protects the right of alien enemy combatants held in U.S. custody at Guantanamo to seek writs of habeas corpus in federal courts. [read post]