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Virginia Prisoner Wins Habeas Release on Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claim
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2023
by Douglas Ankney
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2023, page 36
Filed under:
Release and Reentry,
Habeas Corpus,
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel.
Location:
Virginia.
by Douglas Ankney
There was good news and bad news for former Virginia prisoner Jeramiah Chamberlain on December 22, 2021. That’s when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed dismissal of his suit against officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC), alleging they failed to treat ...
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