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Wisconsin Prisoner's Pro-Se AEDPA Action Dismissed, Reversed and Remanded
Loaded on March 15, 2013
by Derek Gilna
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin's denial of a pro-se application for a writ of habeas corpus by prisoner Stanley E. Martin, Jr., was reversed and remanded by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals based upon "an improper interpretation of the relevant sections of the Antiterrorism …
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