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Habeas Hints: The Year in Review
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2011
by Kent A. Russell
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2011, page 12
by Kent Russell, Blaire Russell & Chandra Russell
Filed under:
Crime/Demographics,
Escapes,
Limitations,
Habeas Corpus,
AEDPA.
Location:
United States of America.
This column provides “habeas hints” to prisoners who are considering or handling habeas corpus petitions as their own attorneys (“in pro per”). The focus of the column is on habeas corpus under AEDPA, the 1996 habeas corpus law which now governs habeas ...
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