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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.
[JURIST] A Tajikistan native held at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] has challenged [appellate brief, PDF] a federal judge's decision to suspend his habeas corpus proceedings after he was cleared for transfer to Tajikistan. Umar Hamzayevich Abdulayev alleges that Judge Reggie Walton of the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] abused his discretion in staying
- Federal judge denies habeas petition of Algerian Guantanamo detainee (jurist.law.pitt.edu)
- Federal judge dismisses Yemeni Guantanamo detainee habeas petition (jurist.law.pitt.edu)
- Federal judge orders release of Kuwaiti Guantanamo detainee (jurist.law.pitt.edu)
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday granted certiorari [order list, PDF] in Magwood v. Culliver [docket; cert. petition, PDF]. The court limited its grant of certiorari to the first question presented, whether "[w]hen a person is resentenced after having obtained federal habeas relief from an earlier sentence, is a claim in a federal habeas petition
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Speaking at a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania last year during the campaign, Barack Obama addressed the Supreme Court's Boumediene decision granting Guantanamo detainees the right to challenge their confinement through habeas corpus proceedings in federal court. Obama asserted that the "principle of habeas corpus, that a state can't just hold you for any reason without charging you and without giving you any kind of due process -- that's the...
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From freerepublic.com
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Restraints on legal rights during wartime is not a new thing. On October 23, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C. for all military-related cases. Article I of the Constitution say this: "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." Lincoln's actions were taken in response to riots and local...
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PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court today allowed the habeas corpus application S.K. Tangakaliswaran who was held under the Emergency (Public Order and Prevention of Crime) Ordinance for alleged gangsterism activities.
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