Sentences with phrase «grant habeas»

1372 (2015), the U.S. Supreme Court clarified when a federal court may grant habeas relief.

The chambers judge dismissed Mr. Khadr's habeas corpus application, but the C.A. allowed his appeal, granted his habeas corpus application and ordered his transfer to a provincial correctional facility.

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In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

He goes on to demonstrate how fundamental safeguards that I was brought up to take for granted - habeas corpus, trial by jury, the presumption of innocence - have been weakened.

Lee was freed on an unsecured bond in August 2014 after a federal judge adopted Carlson's report and recommendation and conditionally granted Lee's petition for habeas corpus relief.

Congress conferred on the courts no power to review their determinations save only as it has granted judicial power «to grant writs of habeas corpus for the purpose of an inquiry into the cause of the restraint of liberty.»

Finally, the district courts have been granted constitutional authority to issue the extraordinary writs of certiorari, prohibition, mandamus, quo warranto, and habeas corpus, as well as all other writs necessary to the complete exercise of their jurisdiction.

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.

A circuit judge shall have the same power to grant writs of habeas corpus within his circuit that a district judge has within his district, and the order of the circuit judge shall be entered in the records of the district court of the district wherein the restraint complained of is had.»