Habeas Corpus

Habeas corpus ( (listen); Medieval Latin meaning "[we, a Court, command] that you have the body [of the detainee brought before us]") is a recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a prison official, to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether the detention is lawful.The writ of habeas corpus is known as the "great and efficacious writ in all manner of illegal confinement". It is a summons with the force of a court order; it is …

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Redress: Redress Trust · 14 March 2024 English

On numerous occasions, the IACtHR has recognised the violation of the right to personal integrity of the direct victims’ relatives because of the additional suffering that they have experienced due …

constitutional complaint mechanisms (for instance habeas corpus petitions) and civil or administrative procedures


Amnesty International · 8 March 2024 English

Willie Pye is scheduled to be executed in Georgia on 20 March 2024. Now 58, he was sentenced to death for a murder committed in 1992 when he was 27. …

accused the majority of rendering the writ of habeas corpus “illusory – impossible – even to obtain” and


Amnesty International · 29 February 2024 English

Ivan Cantu, a 50-year-old Hispanic man, was executed in Texas on 28 February 2024. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 2001 for a double murder committed in November …

lawyers for authorization to file a successive habeas corpus petition in US District Court. The Fifth Circuit


Cato Institute · 15 February 2024 English

In this "smart" and digitized world, nearly everything we do could be captured, stored, and made accessible to the government. The time we wake up (using our phone's alarm), the …

same day as the Act suspending the writ of habeas corpus. See Samuel A. Alito Jr., Documents and the


UN: The United Nations · 8 February 2024 English

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also approach the High Court for an order of habeas corpus, that is, an order requiring the release of


Amnesty International · 30 January 2024 English

Ivan Cantu, a 50-year-old Hispanic man, is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 28 February 2024. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 2001 for a double murder …

filed a successive application for writ of habeas corpus on 18 April, and the next day a Collin County examiner, as the prosecution did. For state habeas corpus review, Ivan Cantu was appointed a lawyer who


Amnesty International · 30 January 2024 Spanish

Ivan Cantu, a 50-year-old Hispanic man, is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 28 February 2024. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 2001 for a double murder …

ni en el juicio ni en el proceso estatal de hábeas corpus, y él siempre ha mantenido que es inocente de abogados presentaron una solicitud sucesiva de hábeas corpus y, al día siguiente, un juez del condado de autorización para presentar una solicitud sucesiva de hábeas corpus alegando que no se había alcanzado el alto como sí hizo la fiscalía. Para el recurso de hábeas corpus, a Iván Cantú se le asignó un abogado que en


NYU: New York University · 29 January 2024 English

The claim that a large increase in the number of migrants gaining entry at the southern border is an “invasion” is constitutional nonsense. The post Immigration Is Not an “Invasion” …


Cato Institute · 25 January 2024 English

The judgments of English courts were as much the law of the land as royal edicts or acts of Parliament. This law, known as the common law, was the body …

and trouble too) to bring, and did bring, his habeas corpus to be relieved from his fine and imprisonment


World Bank Group · 11 January 2024 English

Limited access to justice is a root cause of underdevelopment, social unrest, and conflict. Expanding access to all and especially vulnerable groups including women, the young, small business owners and …

jurisdiction over mandamus, prohibition, and habeas corpus, restraining excess and abuses by public officials


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