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Habeas Corpus : Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty / Eric M. Freedman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freedman, Eric M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Federal government--United States.
- Federal government.
- Habeas corpus--United States.
- Habeas corpus.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : New York University Press, [2001]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Habeas Corpus is the process by which state prisoners-particularly those on death row-appeal to federal courts to have their convictions overturned. Its proper role in our criminal justice system has always been hotly contested, especially in the wake of 1996 legislation curtailing the ability of prisoners to appeal their sentences. In this timely volume, Eric M. Freedman reexamines four of the Supreme Court's most important habeas corpus rulings: one by Chief Justice John Marshall in 1807 concerning Aaron Burr's conspiracy, two arising from the traumatic national events of the 1915 Leo Frank
- Contents:
- The origins of the suspension clause
- The opinion in ex parte Bollman
- Bollman's errors, I
- Bollman's errors, II
- Some suggestive court decisions
- The legal proceedings in Frank : the first round
- The legal proceedings in Frank : federal habeas corpus
- From Frank to Moore
- The legal proceedings in Moore : the state criminal proceedings
- The legal proceedings in Moore : the state collateral proceedings
- The legal proceedings in Moore : the federal habeas corpus proceedings
- Frank v. Moore : the legal and historical explanations
- Backdrop to the construction of a piltdown man
- The drafting of Brown : the core
- The drafting of Brown : the periphery
- The Brown opinions
- The pre-Bator context of Brown
- Understanding Brown
- Epilogue : habeas corpus as a protector of individual liberty in a federal system.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-227) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780814728369
- 0814728367
- 9780814728772
- 0814728774
- OCLC:
- 779828085
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