Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Habeas Corpus : From 10/01/05 To 07/01/06
Number of summaries found: 11
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Habeas Corpus, International Law, Military Law |
| Title: | Hamdan v. Rumsfeld |
| Date: | 06/29/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–184 |
| Summary: | 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 military commission convened to try petitioner lacks the power to proceed because its structure and procedures violate both the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and the Geneva Conventions. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus |
| Title: | Woodford v. Ngo |
| Date: | 06/22/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–416 |
| Summary: | The Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA) exhaustion requirement requires proper exhaustion of administrative remedies. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing |
| Title: | Hill v. McDonough |
| Date: | 06/12/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–8794 |
| Summary: | Dismissal of petitioner's challenge to the constitutionality of a three-drug sequence the state of Florida likely would use to execute him by lethal injection is reversed as his claim did not have to be brought as an action for a writ of habeas corpus, but instead could proceed as an action for relief under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 in accordance with Nelson v. Campbell. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing |
| Title: | House v. Bell |
| Date: | 06/12/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–8990 |
| Summary: | Denial of habeas relief for petitioner in a death penalty murder case pursuant to a finding that his claims were procedurally defaulted is reversed where defendant made the stringent showing required by the actual-innocence exception to procedural default, and defendant's federal habeas action could proceed. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus |
| Title: | Day v. McDonough |
| Date: | 04/25/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1324 |
| Summary: | Dismissal of a habeas petition as untimely under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act's (AEDPA) one-year limitation is affirmed where, under the circumstances at hand a district court had discretion to correct the state's erroneous computation sua sponte when it confronted no intelligent waiver on the state's part and only an evident miscalculation of time. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus |
| Title: | Rice v. Collins |
| Date: | 01/18/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–52 |
| Summary: | Grant of habeas corpus relief from a state conviction for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute pursuant to defendant's Batson challenge is reversed where the circuit court improperly substituted its evaluation of the record for that of the state trial court. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus |
| Title: | Evans v. Chavis |
| Date: | 01/10/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–721 |
| Summary: | Determination that a California prisoner's request for federal appellate review, made three years after a lower state court ruled against him was timely under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), is reversed where the circuit court departed from the Supreme Court's interpretation of the AEDPA as applied to California's system in Carey v. Saffold, 536 U. S. 214 (2002). |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Per Curiam |
| Title: | Bradshaw v. Richey |
| Date: | 11/28/05 |
| Case Number: | 05-101 |
| Summary: | Grant of habeas corpus relief for defendant on his arson conviction is vacated where the circuit court erred in: 1) holding that transferred intent was not a permissible theory for aggravated felony murder under Ohio law, resulting in insufficient evidence of direct intent for a conviction; and 2) finding ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984). |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Per Curiam |
| Title: | Kane v. Espitia |
| Date: | 10/31/05 |
| Case Number: | 04-1538 |
| Summary: | A violation of a law library access right is not a basis for federal habeas relief. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Per Curiam, Sentencing |
| Title: | Schriro v. Smith |
| Date: | 10/17/05 |
| Case Number: | 04-1475 |
| Summary: | The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals exceeded its limited authority on habeas review when it commanded the Arizona courts to conduct a jury trial to resolve defendant-death row inmate's mental retardation claim. |