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In 2008, the Supreme Court held that suspected enemy combatants held at Guantanamo are entitled to the right of habeas corpus.
habeas corpus = a judicial mandate ordering a prisoner to be brought before a judge to determine whether that person is imprisoned lawfully or should be released from custody
- The Court decided to bar claims from federal habeas corpus review if they weren't initially presented to state courts.† (source)
- I made a fine speech about the violation of international frontiers, and habeas corpus and the like; but Chief Justice Robinson was having none of it.† (source)
- Soon after she was evacuated, in April 1942, Mitsue Endo, a twenty-one-year-old Nisei and an employee of the California State Highway Commission, had filed a petition for habeas corpus, protesting her detention at Topaz Camp in central Utah.† (source)
- Shultz filed his habeas corpus petition, and the Kansas Supreme Court commissioned one of its own retired justices, the Honorable Walter G. Thiele, to conduct a full-scale hearing.† (source)
- The General Law Amendment Act, better known as the Ninety-Day Detention Law, waived the right of habeas corpus and empowered any police officer to detain any person without a warrant on grounds of suspicion of a political crime.† (source)
- I wasn't interested in learning how to draft a motion or a writ of habeas corpus or other common jailhouse documents.† (source)
- So seriously was it then viewed that the Habeas Corpus Act makes it a serious offense for any official to exile a British subject.† (source)
- The hearing on Kendrick Bost's petition for habeas corpus relief was held on the second floor of the federal courthouse in Oxford, as scheduled at 1:00 that afternoon.† (source)
- Even though he had used his knowledge of the law to suspend Cuba's writ of habeas corpus, and even though the January 12 massacre was reported in the New York Times, Castro's Harvard speech was interrupted time after time by enthusiastic cheering and applause.† (source)
- Soon after beginning his practice, he had won a writ of habeas corpus and eventual freedom for a runaway slave.† (source)
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- Habeas corpus, then!† (source)
- Habeas Corpus, Ex-Post-Facto Laws† (source)
- I will rule, however, that this court will entertain petitions for a writ of habeas corpus.† (source)
- To remedy this fatal evil, Blackstone praises the habeas corpus act.† (source)
- Baldwin finished by imploring the court to grant the writ of habeas corpus.† (source)
- If they were citizens of France or England, I would issue writs of habeas corpus, Mr. Staples.† (source)
- But before we begin, I would like to enter a second petition for habeas corpus.† (source)
- Finally, Baldwin pressed the point of habeas corpus.† (source)
- Prompted by Mr. Steerman, the Bar Association undertook a course of action without precedent in Kansas legal history: it appointed a young Wichita attorney, Russell Shultz, to investigate the charges and, should evidence warrant it, challenge the validity of the conviction by bringing habeas corpus proceedings in the Kansas Supreme Court, which had recently upheld the verdict.† (source)
- In addition to Dumas's startlingly accurate story, there was a smaller one about the petition for habeas corpus relief filed by the Sistrunk & Bost firm in federal court in Oxford.† (source)
- Section 9, clause 2: "The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it."† (source)
- The proposed Constitution establishes the writ of habeas corpus, prohibits ex-post-facto laws and TITLES OF NOBILITY, a provision not in the New York constitution.† (source)
- Because of this I will not grant writs of habeas corpus for either the men or the children of the Amistad.† (source)
- To that end, I petition the court for a writ of habeas corpus for the blacks taken from the Amistad when it was boarded by the crew and officers of the 'Washington.† (source)
- Though he was not sure what new evidence the abolitionists would marshal, he assured Forsyth that a writ of habeas corpus would never be granted in his court.† (source)
- A writ of habeas corpus would only be an invitation for them to flee prosecution for their crimes of mutiny, murder, and thievery, prosecution for which should rightly take place back in Havana.† (source)
- The government is concerned that if the children or any of the other negroes are provided with a writ of habeas corpus, they will very quickly disappear, perhaps even against their will.† (source)
- Granting a writ of habeas corpus would be denying rightful justice, as well as opening the door for mass escape, a course the slaves certainly would pursue in light of their previous actions of murder and mutiny.† (source)
- Holabird closed by saying that issuing a writ of habeas corpus was ill-advised because it would pave a road for escape, a road that would most certainly lead these slaves away from proper justice under the laws of their homeland, Cuba.† (source)
- Trial by jury and the law of habeas corpus were practically suspended.† (source)
- But we must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.† (source)
- But we must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.† (source)
- I will have habeas corpus.† (source)
- They made him out to be the Royal arms, the Union-Jack, Magna Charta, John Bull, Habeas Corpus, the Bill of Rights, An Englishman's house is his castle, Church and State, and God save the Queen, all put together.† (source)
- He complained vehemently about being imprisoned in defiance of his civil rights, asked by virtue of which law he was hereby detained, invoked writs of habeas corpus, threatened to press charges against anyone holding him in illegal custody, ranted, gesticulated, shouted, and finally conveyed by an expressive gesture that we were dying of hunger.† (source)
- The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.† (source)
- The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.† (source)
- Habeas corpus.† (source)
- …of débris, human remains etc has been entrusted to Messrs Michael Meade and Son, 159 Great Brunswick street, and Messrs T. and C. Martin, 77, 78, 79 and 80 North Wall, assisted by the men and officers of the Duke of Cornwall's light infantry under the general supervision of H. R. H., rear admiral, the right honourable sir Hercules Hannibal Habeas Corpus Anderson, K. G., K. P., K. T., P. C., K. C. B., M. P, J. P., M. B., D. S. O., S. O. D., M. F. H., M. R. I. A., B. L., Mus. Doc.† (source)
- Section 9, of the same article, clause 2 "The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it."† (source)
- The time of the assizes soon came, and I was removed by habeas corpus to Oxford, where I expected certain conviction and condemnation; but, to my great surprize, none appeared against me, and I was, at the end of the sessions, discharged for want of prosecution.† (source)
- The establishment of the writ of habeas corpus, the prohibition of ex-post-facto laws, and of TITLES OF NOBILITY, TO WHICH WE HAVE NO CORRESPONDING PROVISION IN OUR CONSTITUTION, are perhaps greater securities to liberty and republicanism than any it contains.† (source)
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