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New Habeas Book
Loaded on June 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1995, page 16
Book ReviewHabeas Corpus Checklist is the 1995 book by Ira Robbins which gives an exhaustive overview of the law of federal habeas corpus petitions. The book is current through the Supreme Courts 1993-94 term. Useful for both attorneys and pro se litigants the book is divided into sixteen chapters ...
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