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Habeas Hints: Editor's Choice
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2002
by Kent Russell
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2002, page 14
This column is intended to provide habeas hints for prisoners who are considering or handling habeas corpus petitions as their own attorneys. The focus of the column is habeas corpus practice under the AEDPA, the 1996 habeas corpus law which now governs habeas corpus practice throughout the U.S.
Filed under:
DNA Testing/Samples,
Appointment of Counsel,
Habeas Corpus,
International,
Interpreters.
Location:
United States of America.
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