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Miller v. Alabama

Habeas Corpus, Sentencing, Juvenile Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In consolidated petitions for habeas corpus relief, where both petitioners were convicted of murder at the age of 14 and sentenced to a mandatory term...

Johnson v. Uribe

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In a petition for habeas relief, the District Court's ruling is: 1) affirmed as to the District Court's decision to grant the writ; but 2) vacated as...

Epps v. Poole

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Denial of petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. section 2254 is affirmed where the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court did...

Vasquez v. Strada

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In a petition for habeas relief, the District Court's denial of petition for is affirmed where it properly concluded that: 1) the Bureau of Prisons...

Peck v. Thomas

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In consolidated petitions for habeas relief, filed by three petitioners who are statutorily eligible for early release from prison in exchange for the...

Marrero v. Ives

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Petition for habeas corpus, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. section 2241, is denied where the district court correctly construed the petition as a motion under...

Cardona v. Bledsoe

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a petitions for habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. section 2241, arguing that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) illegally referred petitioner to the Special...

Gomex v. Superior Court (Felker)

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Code of Civil Procedure section 259(a), which authorizes commissioners to hear and determine ex parte motions for orders and alternative writs and...

Deyton v. Keller

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Denial of habeas corpus relief is affirmed where, at sentencing, the state trial judge's references to religion did not violate petitioners' due...

Matthews v. US

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
In a habeas appeal of sentence of life imprisonment as a career offender pursuant to 18 U.S.C. section 3559(c) following petitioner's conviction of...