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habeas corpus

noun

• Efforts to reform the state’s habeas corpus process are not new.
  — David Owens, courant.com, 11 May 2018
• The case also builds on the legal history of habeas corpus.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 22 May 2022
• The order suspends habeas corpus and allows courts to hold trials behind closed doors.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• The deadline to file for a federal habeas corpus petition had passed.
  — Ashley Remkus | [e-mail], al, 7 June 2021
• Pregerson went to the prison to see for himself, and then either filed a habeas corpus petition or persuaded a lawyer to do so, Zaugh said.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
• In his filing, Chrestman described Echols' request as a habeas corpus writ.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2022
• Thomas Wilner is one of the lawyers who won the two landmark Supreme Court cases that established habeas corpus rights for Guantánamo detainees.
  — Longreads, 1 Mar. 2018
• Along with the right of habeas corpus, it was intended as a safety valve for a justice system that the founders knew makes mistakes, as do all human systems.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 3 Oct. 2017
• In 1997, Dunn filed a habeas corpus petition in federal court.
  — Chris Pomorski, The New Republic, 23 June 2022
• That’s because in a habeas corpus case the issue is whether a trial judge did something that was within the range authorized by law — not whether the law required the death penalty.
  — Mark Tushnet, Vox, 5 July 2018
• Velasquez, who was 18 at the time of the shooting, was on the doorstep of the Downey apartment but knew nothing of another man’s plan to kill Roybal, according to a habeas corpus motion.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• The motion argues that habeas corpus is the wrong legal argument under which to seek relief.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• Attorney Richard Braucher filed the habeas corpus petition that led to last week’s court ruling.
  — Jason Fagone, SFChronicle.com, 26 Oct. 2020
• His lawyers asked a federal court in a habeas corpus petition to order his release onto the base until a country could be found for him.
  — Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• In March Hill, who is indigent as are 90% of all those convicted on federal charges, filed a habeas corpus motion from his prison cell in Edgefield.
  — Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 4 June 2022
• His freedom would then depend on the Supreme Federal Tribunal, which is scheduled to rule on his habeas corpus petition on April 4.
  — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2018
• That move would render moot John Doe's habeas corpus petition challenging the right of the U.S. to continue holding him without charges.
  — NBC News, 7 June 2018
• Bench began in the 17th century to permit women and their children to utilize habeas corpus to escape abusive men.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
• The provision, part of Article 34, is a version of the habeas corpus rights rooted in centuries of Anglo-American law.
  — Peter Landers, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2019
• Lawyers at airports have been filing habeas corpus petitions around the clock for people being detained.
  — Brandon L. Garrett, Slate Magazine, 30 Jan. 2017
• But would that decision be applied retroactively to habeas corpus cases filed by convicts whose time to appeal ran out years ago?
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 17 May 2021
• Lawyers for the Pentagon and the State Department are said to have pressed to declare that the clause protects detainees in the context of habeas corpus proceedings — while also saying that the standard had been met.
  — Charlie Savage, New York Times, 9 July 2021
• The ultimatum followed a decision by the supreme court (the STF) on the previous day to reject a habeas corpus petition by Lula’s lawyers.
  — The Economist, 8 Apr. 2018
• Mello said limiting the vote just to the habeas corpus petition and not the larger question of when a convict should be forced to begin serving a sentence helped sway Weber's vote.
  — Peter Prengaman and Mauricio Savarese, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2018
• By March 6, officials must explain why the court should not hold habeas corpus proceedings to consider freeing Ramirez.
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 15 Feb. 2017
• The announcement comes a day after an attorney for van der Sloot filed a habeas corpus petition against his client’s temporary transfer from a Peru prison to the US.
  — Josh Campbell, CNN, 8 June 2023
• The plan was the latest twist in a habeas corpus case that has raised novel legal issues about the rights of individual Americans and the government’s wartime powers.
  — Charlie Savage, New York Times, 7 June 2018
• Lawyers for the ex-president filed a request for habeas corpus at the Superior Court of Justice earlier on Tuesday.
  — Bruce Douglas, Bloomberg.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• Extending habeas corpus: In 2008, Kennedy was the fifth vote that gave terrorism suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay the right to challenge their detention in civilian courts.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 28 June 2018
• Lula’s defence team played for time, filing procedural motions at the appeal court and making its petition for habeas corpus to the STF.
  — The Economist, 8 Apr. 2018

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