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Habeas Hints: How to Get DNA Testing
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2006
by Kent Russell
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2006, page 18
This column is intended to provide 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 habeas corpus practice under the AEDPA, the 1996 habeas corpus law which now governs habeas corpus practice throughout the ...
Filed under:
DNA Testing/Samples,
Sentencing,
Habeas Corpus,
State Legislation.
Location:
United States of America.
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