Difference between revisions of "Right to Habeas Corpus"

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**(d) the right to an order of habeas corpus.
 
**(d) the right to an order of habeas corpus.
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===United States===
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The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 limited the use of the federal writ by imposing several requirements on the defendant:
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# a one-year statute of limitations
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# dramatic increase in the federal judiciary's deference to decisions previously made in state court proceedings either on direct appeal from the conviction and sentence, or in a state court habeas corpus action and the associated second round of state appeal (both of which, in the usual case, occur before a federal habeas petition is filed).
  
 
== Rights of the accused ==
 
== Rights of the accused ==

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