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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
• Through the habeas corpus petition, the court could reverse the conviction or reopen proceedings.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2024
• 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
• His claim, along with the Cano letter, were both included in the habeas corpus petition filed by Erik and Lyle’s attorneys the following month, in May 2023, that is now under review.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2024
• 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
• An excerpt of the letter, which the defense says was written eight months before the murders, was included in the 2023 habeas corpus petition filed by the brothers' attorneys.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024