Habeas corpus

two police officers. Ten years laters, after Herrera pleads guilty to the capital murder of two officers, Herrera filed a habeas corpus petition under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. Forbidding his execution with new evidence and witness shows that his dead brother, Raul Herrera is the person who is responsible for the murders. However Herrera’s state and federal habeas applications failed, and the…

When it comes to the United States Supreme Court and the Juvenile Court, things changed in the 1960s, when the Supreme Court issued several decisions that would expand the due process rights for any criminal defendant. This was under the leadership of Chief Justice Earl Warren, who was concerned that civil liberties and human rights and how they were reflected in decisions. “In general, the Court believed that criminal defendants were citizens who were presumed innocent until they had been…

black, republican leaders. Eventually, the Ku Klux Klan grew so powerful that congress had to step in and pass multiple laws banning the organization In some cases, the KKK became such a potent force that Ulysses S. Grant suspended the writ of habeas corpus in nine South Carolina counties. Hundreds of men suspected of being klansmen were rounded up and arrested. Sadly, although these measures tried to limit the power of the KKK, the acts were futile and…

Section A. Shelli Rose Dewey, Petitioner, v. Carolyn Myles, et al., Respondents. On September 12th, 2004, Shelli Rose Dewey, a Nevada resident, called Elko County Police frantically stating that her husband, Steven Dewey, was stabbed by an unknown assailant. Upon police arrival, Dewey was moderately intoxicated. Witnesses stated that the couple had been at a nearby bar earlier in the day when the bartender asked the two to leave. Thirty minutes following their ejection from the bar, witnesses…

In the mafia movie Godfather Part 3, the crime boss Michael Corleone, when confronted with the difficulties of trying to take his crime family legitimate, frustratingly states, “It took me to go legitimate to find out where the real criminals are.” Is Statesmanship still possible in today’s political context? Interestingly, one of Susan B. Anthony’s biggest hurdles in women suffrage movement existed, subsequently, because it stood linked with temperance, “ensuring its defeat by men who feared…

and author, Matthew Warshauer of Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law, Nationalism, Civil Liberties and Partisanship claims that then Major General Andrew Jackson believed it was crucial to declare “martial law and suspend the writ of habeas corpus” in order to win the battle of New Orleans. However, as Washauer claims, by doing so, Andrew Jackson became the first American general to suspend civil liberties. Through this monograph, Washauer tells the tale of Andrew Jackson’s…

The Death Penalty The death penalty how much does society really knows or understand about the process? Many people view the death penalty a justice “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth ( mathew5:38).” The victim’s family might feel that the criminal is to be punished to the highest degree for his crime. Most people feel that is justice. However, most people do not really know much about the process of executing a death row inmate, how much more the death penalty cost comparing with…

off with what is Habeas Corpus? “A demand by a court to a jailer to produce the prisoner and announce the charges.” (Levin-Waldman, 2012). Habeas Corpus dates all the way back to the fourteenth century and was made part of England law back in 1679. When this great nation was being formed Habeas Corpus was saw as common law and continued to recognize it following our Independence. U.S. Constitution formed no explicit provision for writ, “The privilege of the writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be…

The feud between Apple and the FBI has received a substantial amount of media coverage lately. The legal arguments for each side appear to be equally laudable, which impelled investigate on my own. I decided to explore the question of whether or not Apple should produce a back-door to assist in the FBI’s investigation. The FBI, which initiated the debate, argued that Apple has to comply citing the All Writs Act of 1789. Apple refuses to comply stating that if the back-door was to be produced and…

AIMS The following questions have to do with the study of patients who have undergone a surgery (for medical reasons, severe epilepsy being one) that severed the corpus callosum. This leaves the two halves of the brain to work independently from one another. The main questions this study seeks to answer are: how do the two halves of the brain interact with each other and how is this relationship altered after the subjects have undergone this surgery? METHODS Basically, subjects were asked…