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Satterlee v. Wolfenbarger

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Judgments granting a conditional writ of habeas relief and later granting an unconditional writ are both affirmed, with instructions to clarify an...

Johnson v. Kemna

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Dismissal of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus is reversed where the district court erred in determining the habeas petition was untimely under...

US v. Sanders

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
After a conviction has been affirmed on appeal, and a case is remanded solely for resentencing, the question of whether any delay in imposing the...

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Habeas Corpus, International Law, Military Law
In a challenge brought by a Guantanamo detainee, a judgment of a court of appeals reversing an earlier grant of habeas relief is reversed where the...

Resendiz v. Quarterman

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Health Law
In a capital murder and death sentence case, defendant's application for a certificate of appealability and his motion for a stay of execution are...

Gasparovic v. State of Florida

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of appellant's habeas corpus petition is affirmed without prejudice to appellant seeking mandamus relief in the trial court if he has exhausted...

Ex parte Martinez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In a capital murder and death penalty case, a petition for habeas relief is denied over claims that he received ineffective assistance of counsel at...

Ex parte Rodriguez

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, International Law, Sentencing
An application for habeas relief is granted to an applicant pursuant to his claim that he was entitled to jail time credit for a period he spent...

Ex parte Bahena

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Habeas relief is denied over petitioner's claim that his trial and appellate counsel provided constitutionally deficient and prejudicial legal...

Harden v. State

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Writ of certiorari is issued and order to have defendant involuntarily committed as a sexually violent predator is quashed where there is nothing in...