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California Federal Judge Denies Habeas Petitions after Sitting on Them for Years
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2012, page 40
A federal judge’s treatment of prisoner habeas petitions gives new meaning to the old adage that justice delayed is justice denied. U.S. District Court Judge Percy Anderson, who was named to the federal judiciary in 2002 by President George W. Bush, has established a track record of allowing potentially meritorious ...
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