Sentences with phrase «preserving habeas corpus»
Voted YES on loosening restrictions on cell phone wiretapping Voted NO on preserving habeas corpus for Guantanamo detainees.
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Some states had direct appeals of criminal convictions earlier than this but the writ of habeas corpus does precede a direct appeal as a form of relief from a wrongful criminal conviction historically and was the primary means by which one could obtain relief from a criminal conviction in 1789 when the U.S. Constitution, which preserved the right to seek a writ of habeas corpus even before the Bill of Rights added most other new criminal procedure rights under the constitution, was adopted.