Subject: Habeas Corpus
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Two documents Icon_Capital § 2254 Habeas Cases: A Pocket Guide for Judges
Kristine M. Fox,
2012 (Publication) 28 pages
This pocket guide provides a basic overview of the issues judges can expect to face when assigned a capital habeas case. It begins with appointment of counsel, budgeting concerns, and stays of execution. It then summarizes the primary procedural considerations that affect habeas cases—successive ...(Read more)
Two documents Icon_Resource Guide for Managing Capital Cases, Volume II: Habeas Corpus Review of Capital Convictions
Asifa Quraishi,
2010 (Publication) 42 pages
This is the second part of a two-volume resource guide for managing capital cases in the federal courts. The first volume covers federal death penalty trials. This volume covers management of cases involving federal habeas corpus review of state and federal capital convictions. This volume is meant ...(Read more)
Two documents Icon_Court to Court
June 17, 1999 (Video)
3862-V/99 (one DVD) (34 minutes)
What can be done when hundreds of media representatives descend on your court for a case that has generated intense public interest? This edition of the Center's educational television magazine features four districts--Colorado, California Eastern, Arizona, and Arkansas Eastern--which have mastered ...(Read more)
Two documents Icon_Habeas and Prison Litigation Case Law Update (1996-1998)
1996 (Publication) 100 pages
(Publication ceased in 1998)
Beginning in June 1996, the Center published thirteen issues of this newsletter. It summarizes relevant appellate and district court decisions under the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996 and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. It was published ...(Read more)
Two documents Icon_An Analysis of Disposition Times for Capital Habeas Corpus Petitions
Scott Gilbert, Patricia Lombard,
September 1995 (Publication) 15 pages
Report to the Conference of Chief Circuit Judges and Circuit Executives regarding the disposition times of capital habeas petitions in both federal district and appellate courts.