Sample Sentences forhabeas corpus (auto-selected)
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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
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The Court decided to bar claims from federal habeas corpus review if they weren't initially presented to state courts.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Trial by jury and the law of habeas corpus were practically suspended.† (source)
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I will have habeas corpus.† (source)
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If they were citizens of France or England, I would issue writs of habeas corpus, Mr. Staples.† (source)
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To remedy this fatal evil, Blackstone praises the habeas corpus act.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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I wasn't interested in learning how to draft a motion or a writ of habeas corpus or other common jailhouse documents.† (source)
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Habeas corpus, then!† (source)
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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)
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