Sentences with phrase «capital habeas»
Before that I was an assistant federal defender handling capital habeas corpus cases and an adjunct law professor.
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Liptak cites dictum from a 1993 decision, Herrera v. Collins, in which Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist wrote for the court,» [W] e may assume, for the sake of argument in deciding this case, that in a capital case a truly persuasive demonstration of «actual innocence» made after trial would render the execution of a defendant unconstitutional and warrant federal habeas relief.»
As detailed in this local article, headlined «Tennessee moves closer to executing first woman: Sixth Circuit denies appeal to woman convicted in murder for hire of husband,» a new federal habeas ruling in a state capital case provides an effective opportunity to reflect on gender bias in the application of the death penalty.
Outside the war - on - terror setting, most legal habeas battles (in the Supreme Court and in lower federal courts) are about state capital cases.