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14 Jul 2015, 9:04 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
So they become experts at habeas corpus and use the prison law library. [read post]
8 Jul 2015, 8:33 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
It always interests me when a convicted defendant wins a habeas corpus petition. [read post]
8 Jul 2015, 3:41 am by Timothy P. Flynn
The case has featured pitched allegations of parental alienation and kidnapping.When an emergency motion to readdress the children's incarceration was denied by Judge Gorcyca, an appeal was lodged and a petition for a writ of habeas corpus was filed Monday by the children's father. [read post]
7 Jul 2015, 1:21 pm by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
You have one year to file a habeas corpus petition in challenging the constitutionality of your criminal conviction. [read post]
1 Jul 2015, 7:43 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Grits readers are sick of hearing about this one, but I'm still giddy the governor signed this thing.Provided counsel for habeas corpus petitioners in agreed cases. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 8:42 am
Commissioner of Correction (Habeas; "This third petition is one in a labyrinth of petitions for a writ of habeas corpus and amended habeas corpus petitions filed by the petitioner. [read post]
27 Jun 2015, 9:07 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Several pieces of legislation related to forensics and habeas corpus passed this session which collectively alter the landscape surrounding junk science and post-conviction writs. [read post]
24 Jun 2015, 4:44 pm by Kent Scheidegger
  Sometimes they don't.In the cases I follow closely (criminal, habeas corpus, law-enforcement-related civil), the number of wins for the "liberal" side this term (the defendant, the habeas petitioner, the prisoner, the person challenging police action) is to some extent a function of the cases the Supreme Court has taken up. [read post]
24 Jun 2015, 3:13 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The prosecutors allowed evidence to be destroyed that could have been exculpatory and failed to notify the defendant in question about crime lab problems which would have supported habeas corpus relief. [read post]
20 Jun 2015, 5:53 am by SHG
  The case was a habeas corpus review of the defendant’s Batson challenges, the prosecution having used its peremptory strikes to cleanse the jury of dark skin. [read post]
19 Jun 2015, 12:13 pm by John Elwood
Two other promising habeas corpus storylines were cancelled. [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]
18 Jun 2015, 7:58 am by Bill Otis
Thus the majority opinion, written by Justice Alito, begins:A quarter-century after a California jury convicted Hector Ayala of triple murder and sentenced him to death, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted Ayala's application for a writ of habeas corpus and ordered the State to retry or release him. [read post]
17 Jun 2015, 7:47 am by Steve Vladeck
" In Schor itself, Justice O'Connor emphasized that allowing the CFTC to entertain the small class of state-law counterclaims at issue "leaves far more of the 'essential attributes of judicial power' to Article III courts," since, among other things, the CFTC "does not exercise 'all ordinary powers of district courts,' and thus may not, for instance, preside over jury trials or issue writs of habeas corpus. [read post]
16 Jun 2015, 1:13 pm by Kent Scheidegger
  Instead, Congress imposed a new limitation on granting relief in habeas corpus cases, the so-called "deference" standard of 28 U.S.C. [read post]
15 Jun 2015, 10:20 am by Kent Scheidegger
  California still follows the practice, once common but now unique in the nation, that denials of habeas corpus are not appealable but the prisoner files a new petition in the higher court to get a de facto review of his case. [read post]
11 Jun 2015, 12:58 pm by CJLF Staff
Jerry Brown, filed a writ of habeas corpus and had it granted after a series of parole hearings. [read post]
10 Jun 2015, 9:52 am by Rahul Bhagnari
The Defense Department could also stop fighting Mohamedou's federal habeas corpus lawsuit, which challenges the legality of his initial detention. [read post]
7 Jun 2015, 2:30 pm by Robert Kreisman
Language from the clauses of the Magna Carta can be found in the American laws relating to the writ of habeas corpus, the right to a jury trial for all crimes and the due process clause, fundamental rights found in the U.S and Illinois Constitutions. [read post]
6 Jun 2015, 8:50 pm by The Clinton Law Firm
Based on these shortcomings with her legal representation, Desetti received habeas corpus relief and her conviction was vacated. [read post]