Lethal mix: Lawyers’ Mistakes, Unforgiving Law. An Investigation finds that a 1996 law created procedural hurdles, causing many inmates to lose access to final appeal They missed the deadline by a single day... By missing the filing deadline, those inmates have usually lost access to habeas corpus, arguably the most critical safeguard in the United States’ system of capital punishment. “The Great Writ,” as it is often called (in Latin it means “you have the body”), habeas corpus allows prisoners to argue in federal court that the conviction or sentence they received in a state court violates federal law. Read more: wapo.st/1q61b1h via Washington Post and The Marshall Project
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:35:00 +0000
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