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Habeas Hints: Expert Testimony in Habeas Cases
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2011
by Kent A. Russell
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2011, page 14
by Kent Russell
Filed under:
Commentary/Reviews,
Resources,
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 corpus practice in federal courts ...
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