Sentences with phrase «about habeas corpus»
Senator Feingold asked a few questions about habeas corpus, though there were no surprising revelations and the focus again was on the risk of wrongful convictions.
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Assuming my habeas corpus motion will be denied, I'm picking my first jury in about six weeks.
... But when Kennedy, after describing the facts and legal issues paused, leaned forward and started talking about basic principles, it was clear: he had provided the fifth vote to declare that Guantanamo detainees have habeas corpus rights that were violated when Congress stripped courts of habeas jurisdiction in the Military Commissions Act of 2006.
We were hoping the Court would say something about the role of habeas corpus and the Charter and Constitution, but it was not to be.»
Ask us about filing a bond reduction motion, an examining trial, a speedy trial motion, or a writ of habeas corpus.
Stop talking about violations of habeas corpus and moral principles.
Laura talks about their petition for a writ of habeas corpus asking the Wisconsin federal court to review Brendan's interrogation confession, his original legal representation, and the way Wisconsin state courts handled Brendan's case.
Today the Court granted certiorari to Harrington v. Richter, an ineffective assistance of counsel case challenging the issuance of habeas corpus relief by the Ninth Circuit based upon counsel's reliance on cross-examination and other methods to create reasonable doubt about the defendant's guilt rather than expert - opinion testimony.
Executions typically follow death sentences in the United States by ten years or so, because it takes about ten years to complete a full set of direct appeals all of the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, a state collateral attack with appeals of that ruling all of the way to the U.S. Supreme Court (if relief is denied) and finally a federal habeas corpus petition with appeals of that ruling all of the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
But, about a third to a half of collateral attacks of death penalty sentences with habeas corpus petitions are successful in U.S. courts.