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31 Mar 2013, 2:13 pm
LEXIS 42064, Jan. 31, 2013) and dismissed a habeas corpus petition brought by an inmate who was denied parole after refusing to take the Sex Offender Counseling and Treatment Program because assuming responsibility for the offense in the program would require him to lie in violation of his Jehovah's Witness religious beliefs.In Mobley v. [read post]
30 Mar 2013, 9:43 pm
The point of PCR is akin to habeas corpus in the federal system, it is a check on the system itself. [read post]
27 Mar 2013, 3:08 pm
In a curious per curium opinion, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals today granted habeas corpus relief to Ed Graf (see Grits coverage here, here, and here), who was convicted based on expert testimony about arson that was substantively demonstrably false. [read post]
27 Mar 2013, 8:59 am
Mentors will be volunteers who have experience in immigration, habeas corpus, and/or appellate practice in general. [read post]
26 Mar 2013, 4:41 am
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]
25 Mar 2013, 8:08 am
So the Second Circuit affirms the district court's ruling granting habeas corpus to Harrison, making Harrison a free man. [read post]
19 Mar 2013, 2:52 pm
Based on their prior rulings, expect more of Salvador's cases to be on the roster of approved habeas corpus writs. [read post]
18 Mar 2013, 2:01 pm
His study of the law led him to file a petition for habeas corpus with the Supreme Court of Florida, which asked that he be freed because he had been imprisoned illegally. [read post]
18 Mar 2013, 2:58 am
[Note that Merryman was not an opinion of the full Supreme Court; rather it was simply a writ issued by Taney pursuant to the Court’s original jurisdiction in habeas corpus cases for federal prisoners.] [read post]
17 Mar 2013, 9:17 pm
REVERSE the decision of the district court and REMAND with instructions to GRANT a conditional writ of habeas corpus setting aside her convictions and sentences. [read post]
15 Mar 2013, 11:08 pm
He doesn't have a right to a lawyer to pursue a collateral attack on his conviction through state or federal habeas corpus procedings.And the right to counsel at trial and on first appeal? [read post]
13 Mar 2013, 5:36 am
Go here to watch video of the testimony, which began at the 30:45 mark.Less well covered in the press, though mentioned in passing at the end of this SA Express-News article, was Chairman Whitmire's SB 344 reforming the state's habeas corpus statute, a bill which Maurice Chammah at the Texas Tribune skillfully explicated in a story last month. [read post]
11 Mar 2013, 7:40 am
Our policy is to include and disclose all cases in which Goldstein & Russell, P.C., whose attorneys work for or contribute to this blog in various capacities, represents either a party or an amicus in the case, with the exception of the rare cases in which Goldstein & Russell represents the respondent(s) but does not appear on the briefs in the case. [read post]
7 Mar 2013, 8:20 am
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals yesterday approved nine new habeas corpus petitions from defendants convicted of drug crimes after a Department of Public Safety crime lab worker in Houston was found last year to have falsified test results. [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 8:33 am
He filed for and pursued post-conviction relief in Ohio's courts and habeas corpus relief in federal court. [read post]
5 Mar 2013, 1:33 pm
After Padilla, non-citizens who were placed in removal proceedings for their criminal conviction were able to raise specific 6th Amendment challenges through petitions for habeas corpus and other similar post conviction mechanisms. [read post]
5 Mar 2013, 1:01 pm
California "clearly establish[es]," for purposes of habeas corpus review of state-court judgments under 28 U.S.C. [read post]
4 Mar 2013, 3:48 pm
That’s why, in cases like Munaf v. [read post]
4 Mar 2013, 7:19 am
The district court, in the person of Judge Richard Leon, had granted Al-Janko’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. [read post]
1 Mar 2013, 3:06 pm
A New York Criminal Lawyer said the issue before the court is whether the savings clause permits a federal prisoner to challenge his sentence in a habeas corpus petition when he could not raise that challenge in motion because of the bar against successive motions. [read post]
