Habeas corpus
A community portal about Habeas corpus with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: In common law countries, habeas corpus, Latin for "you have the body", is the name of a legal action or writ by means of which detainees... [more]
A community portal about Habeas corpus with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: In common law countries, habeas corpus, Latin for "you have the body", is the name of a legal action or writ by means of which detainees can seek relief from unlawful imprisonment. But habeas corpus has a much broader meaning in common law today. A writ of habeas corpus is a court order addressed to a prison official ordering that a prisoner be brought before the court for determination of whether that person is serving a lawful sentence and/or whether he or she should be released from custody. The writ of habeas corpus in common law countries is an important instrument for the safeguarding of individual freedom against arbitrary state action.
It's good that George Bush announced he would follow the Supreme Court's ruling in Boumediene v. Bush, the Guantanamo Bay case. He did note that it was decided by a deeply divided court. I noticed it was exactly the same type of divided court that made him President of the United States in 2000. It's really too bad that Bush, Gonzo, Cheney, Rumsfeld and all the rest had to have the Supreme Court lecture them on the ancient writ of habeas corpus—because they have always been quite...
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Why is Habeas Corpus Such a Threat to those in Power? By Maher Osseiran | July 25, 2008 | The Populist Party Why is the Supreme Court's decision to uphold habeas corpus rights for the Guantanamo detainees so scary that Senator Lindsey Graham, with the support of McCain, will "explore the possibility, if necessary, of a constitutional amendment to blunt the effect of this decision"? What is so fundamentally wrong with the Supreme Court's decision, whose members are conservative or Bush...
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"No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed, or banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. "One of the worst decisions in the history of this country." 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." 3 "In considering both the procedural and...
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Last week's decision by the Supreme Court to uphold habeas corpus for Guantanamo Bay detainees has set off a predictable firestorm riddled with precarious assumptions and outright falsehoods. Coverage of the decision has given plenty of time to these presumptuous hypotheticals, but been lax in examining their shaky foundations. The easiest tenet of the opposition's argument to put down is that which supports the Executive branch's ability of eliminate habeas corpus outright. The ability to...
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Today the Supreme Court will hear arguments concerning the rights of detainees in Guantanmo Bay Detention Camp to challenge their continued detention by means of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. To put this issue in perspective consider the following plausible hypothetical. Imagine, in late 2002 you are a young Afghan male. Like most young men in war torn countries you had to choose sides, and you chose the side of the Taliban. You consider yourself a good Muslim and dislike...
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Where a prisoner, whose habeas corpus petition was denied, filed another habeas corpus petition in 2007, that petition should be dismissed, without prejudice, in light of the petitioner's failure to obtain ...
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Where a respondent prison superintendent has moved for dismissal of a habeas corpus petition, the motion should be allowed on the ground that the petition is time-barred. "The petitioner, Ronald E. Allard, Jr., ...
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"Why is the Supreme Court's decision to uphold habeas corpus rights for the Guantanamo detainees so scary that Senator Lindsey Graham, with the support of McCain, will 'explore the possibility, if necessary, of ...
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CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Tuesday directed Handlooms Minister N.K.K.P. Raja and five others to file their counter in a case relating to a habeas corpus petition.
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ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Sardar Muhammad Aslam will today hear a habeas corpus petition filed by Barrister Javed Iqbal Jafferi seeking the recovery of Dr Afiya Siddiqui.
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Where the present appellant was convicted in Massachusetts Superior Court of rape and abuse of a child under the age of 16 and a related crime, based on a series of sexual assaults he committed against his ...
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Angry Republicans have blasted the Supreme Court for asserting that prisoners held by the American government at Guantanamo Bay have legal rights. They have argued that providing habeas corpus rights to the Guantanamo prisoners is being soft on terrorism.
Sadly, these Republicans don’t seem to...
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CHENNAI: Former Tamil Nadu Handlooms Minister N.K.K.P.Raja has said that a habeas corpus petition, in which he has been cited as a respondent, has been filed "with an intention to foster personal disputes at ...
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PORT CLINTON, OHIO—The road is now clear for convicted judicial whistleblower Elsebeth Baumgartner to take a challenge of her 2006 convictions for criticizing a judge to the federal court.
On Wednesday, the Ohio Supreme Court declined jurisdiction of the habeas corpus petition filed by...
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KUALA LUMPUR: A High Court judge blamed Hindraf leader P. Uthayakumar's counsel for delaying his habeas corpus hearing when the lawyer told the court she could not proceed.
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