Habeas Corpus : Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty / Eric M. Freedman.
Freedman, Eric M., author.
2002
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Title Habeas Corpus : Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty / Eric M. Freedman.
Author Freedman, Eric M., author.
ISBN 9780814728772
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814728772.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2002]
Copyright ©2002
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.18574/nyu/9780814728772.001.0001 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 345.73056
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 case and the 1923 cases growing out of murderous race riots in Elaine County, Arkansas, and one case from 1953 that dramatized some of the ugliest features of the Southern justice of the period. In each instance, Freeman uncovers new original sources and tells the stories of the cases through such documents as the Justices' draft opinions and the memos of law clerk William H. Rehnquist. In bracing and accessible language, Freedman then presents an interpretation that rewrites the conventional view.Building on these results, he challenges legalistic limits on habeas corpus and demonstrates how a vigorous writ is central to implementing the fundamental conceptions of individual liberty and constrained government power that underlie the Constitution.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I
1 Introduction to Part I
2 The Origins of the Suspension Clause
3 The Opinion in Ex Parte Bollman
4 Bollman's Errors-I
5 Bollman's Errors-II
6 Some Suggestive Court Decisions
7 Conclusion to Part I
Part II
8 Introduction to Part II
9 The Legal Proceedings in Frank: The First Round
10 The Legal Proceedings in Frank: Federal Habeas Corpus
11 From Frank to Moore
12 The Legal Proceedings in Moore : The State Criminal Proceedings
13 The Legal Proceedings in Moore : The State Collateral Proceedings
14 The Legal Proceedings in Moore : The Federal Habeas Corpus Proceedings
15 Frank v. Moore: The Legal and Historical Explanations
Part III
16 Introduction to Part III
17 Backdrop to the Construction of a Piltdown Man
18 The Drafting of Brown: The Core
19 The Drafting of Brown: The Periphery
20 The Brown Opinions
21 The Pre-Bator Context of Brown
22 Understanding Brown
Part IV
23 Epilogue: Habeas Corpus as a Protector of Individual Liberty in a Federal System
Notes
Index
About the Author

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