The prisoners there have access to lawyers, and the federal courts oversee habeas corpus cases.
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Reaves prepared for him a state writ of habeas corpus, known as a Great Writ.
Whatever the outcome, the Supreme Court now plans to weigh in on the habeas corpus debate.
But the detainees' lawyers say their habeas corpus challenges could take months, if not years.
If Guantanamo prisoners have a right to habeas corpus, would prisoners at Bagram too?
Compared with previous wartime shifts such as Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus this one is modest.
Dozens of habeas corpus lawsuits are working their way up through the federal courts.
This case should force a re-examination of current habeas corpus law and its Byzantine procedural obstacles.
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Habeas corpus relief depends upon a combination of newly-discovered evidence plus a demonstration of innocence.
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Furthermore, the judicial process does not consider a person's individual rights or rights of habeas corpus.
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C. appeals court to argue against detainee habeas corpus rights at Bagram Airfield base in Afghanistan.
It will take at least 60 votes to break the Republican-led filibuster blocking the habeas corpus measure.
And the question, basically, is whether they have the right to habeas corpus.
After Willingham filed another writ of habeas corpus, this time in federal court, he was granted a temporary stay.
Second, habeas corpus proceedings must protect the integrity of classified information and prevent disclosing that information to our enemies.
Former Bush administration lawyer Brad Berenson says that the new law does provide a sufficient alternative to habeas corpus.
Only the right of habeas corpus contains with it, he suggested, the ultimate sanction of ordering a detainee's release.
El-Gharani's lawyers filed a habeas corpus petition in federal court, demanding the government justify its continued detention or release him.
What's more, says Cornell University law professor Trevor Morrison, the law does not provide a key element of habeas corpus.
Court of Appeals rules on whether the CSRT hearings have followed the procedures established as an alternative to habeas corpus.
Last January, at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he questioned whether the Constitution granted a right to habeas corpus.
Likewise, the disposition of 250 detainees classified as unlawful enemy combatants, 100 of whom have pending habeas corpus petitions, remains in question.
The White House has already threatened to veto the Defense Authorization Bill if the habeas corpus issue is added as an amendment.
Of greater significance is that while Washington is moving retrograde on matters of civil liberties, such as Habeas Corpus, Beijing is moving forward.
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The two things that I have a serious problem with are the fact that they're trying to take away the right of habeas corpus.
In a law establishing military commissions, Congress did away with habeas corpus protections for all foreigners detained by the United States as suspected terrorists.
"Senator Obama demonstrated real leadership then and since, continuing to raise Guantanamo and habeas corpus in his speeches and in the debates, " they said.
Or does it suggest that the judiciary is politicised, ready to violate the presumption of innocence and tear up the writ of habeas corpus?
The Bush administration argues that Congress approved just such an alternative when it stripped the courts of the right to hear the detainees' habeas corpus challenges.
Now, the detainees will be able to petition for habeas corpus the right to be brought before a court to determine whether they have been lawfully detained.
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