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9 Jan 2014, 2:30 pm
Recently a family from my home town sought advice about a federal habeas corpus petition to rectify the results of on an older grand theft case in which the defendant was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. [read post]
8 Jan 2014, 1:10 pm
The New Habeas Corpus Law Seems To Be Working The new Habeas Corpus law, effective only a few months ago, already shows signs of being a real tool for righting wrongs for criminal defendants in Texas. [read post]
7 Jan 2014, 12:06 pm
At the Texas Observer, Maurice Chammah has one of the more detailed accounts yet published of the backstory behind the San Antonio Four case.Photo by Tamir Kalifa via The Texas Observer.Having covered it during session for the Texas Tribune, Maurice has a greater understanding than most about the context surrounding the new Texas law that allows habeas corpus writs to challenge junk science used to secure false convictions. [read post]
2 Jan 2014, 3:02 pm
In a family related case, a habeas corpus proceeding with respect to custody of petitioner's eight-year-old son, the appeal is from an order of the Family Court, Kings County, A prior interim order had been made by the Supreme Court, Kings County, referring the proceeding to the Family Court and granting temporary custody of the child to appellants, with two-hour periods of visitation on Saturdays and Wednesdays to petitioner at appellants' home. [read post]
31 Dec 2013, 4:03 pm
It is barely alluded to in JJ's habeas corpus petition, it was not discussed by either court below and the State, as appellant in this Court, has not briefed or argued the merits of the question. [read post]
28 Dec 2013, 2:56 pm
Joseph, after his release from custody was stayed under article 10, began a habeas corpus proceeding, which Supreme Court dismissed; the Appellate Division reversed and granted the writ. [read post]
26 Dec 2013, 10:30 am
Habeas corpus can now confront junk science. [read post]
26 Dec 2013, 4:30 am
But a woman, Mitsuye Endo, who obediently went to camp and then filed for a writ of habeas corpus, won her case. [read post]
25 Dec 2013, 7:05 am
After a year and a half delay since a trial court recommended he be freed and declared actually innocent, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals agreed to grant habeas corpus relief to Daniel Villegas last week (see earlier Grits coverage). [read post]
22 Dec 2013, 9:57 am
During the Emergency, the Court agreed to the suspension of Habeas Corpus, a fundamental right against arbitrary detention of citizens by the state. [read post]
17 Dec 2013, 3:18 pm
Attorney Mike Ware and Elizabeth RamirezA couple of national stories - from USA Today and Time magazine deserve Grits' readers attention related to the San Antonio Four case and Texas' new law allowing habeas corpus writs for convictions based on junk science. [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 11:01 am
The HuffPost Crime Blog had an article this week profiling a habeas corpus writ involving an alleged false confession case out of El Paso that the Court of Criminal Appeals has been sitting on for nearly a year and a half. [read post]
15 Dec 2013, 5:05 pm
Justice Kennedy explained.The writ of habeas corpus stands as a safeguard against imprisonment of those held in violation of the law. [read post]
14 Dec 2013, 2:49 am
In its infamous judgment in the case of Additional District Magistrate, Jabalpur, the Court had shamefully upheld the Executive suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, a most basic constitutional guarantee of liberty to a citizen against the power of the state.On 11th December 2013, a bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justice Singhvi and Justice Mukhopadhaya unanimously decided in Koushal v Naz Foundation that the state is entitled to criminalise… [read post]
12 Dec 2013, 4:26 am
Bush, the 2008 decision that established the detainees’ right to seek release through petitions for habeas corpus. [read post]
9 Dec 2013, 6:46 pm
Avery as one contrary to the government’s point of view: why, in that case, was passing typewriters and law books to fellow inmates covered by habeas corpus, while access to an actual attorney here is not? [read post]
8 Dec 2013, 3:03 pm
The Appellate Division reversed the trial court's decision and dismissed the habeas corpus petition. [read post]
8 Dec 2013, 11:03 am
(Plus, habeas corpus writs a relatively specialized field and most attorneys taking appointed cases wouldn't be competent to handle them.) [read post]
8 Dec 2013, 8:34 am
Guest Post by Rajashree RajasekaranIt is not often that a case concerning the writ of Habeas Corpus finds its way to the Supreme Court of India. [read post]
4 Dec 2013, 6:44 am
Obama, the latest Guantanamo habeas case. [read post]
