Habeas Corpus Law
 
Clarence Borns v. Troy Crisman, Warden

Detroit, Michigan: n December 2012, a vandal broke the windows of two homes owned by Evelyn Hardwick. She called the police, who said there was nothing they could do. But Hardwick “wanted to find out exactly . . . why . . . someone [would] come and tear out [her] windows in mid winter for absolutely nothing.” R. 23-6, Pg. ID 1715. She suspected the reason had something to do with her son, Jame

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Jackson v. Denno

Petitioner, after robbing a hotel, fatally wounded a policeman and himself received two bullet wounds. Questioned shortly after arrival at a hospital, he admitted the shooting and the robbery. Some time later, after considerable loss of blood and soon after he had been given drugs, he was interrogated and admitted firing the first shot at the policeman. Petitioner was indicted for murder, and both

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State of Texas v. Adrian Gonzales

Corpus Christi, Texas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with 29 counts of child endangerment. Adrian Gonzales was accused of failing to act when he arrived at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde where a shooter killed 19 children and two teachers.

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United States of America v. Jose de Jesus Galicia-Castillo

Corpus Christi, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with reentry of deported alien. Jose de Jesus Galicia-Castillo, age 36, was arrested for being in the United States illegally for the third time. He was first removed in 2008 and returned illegally on at least two other occasions. Most recently, authorities discovered him July 25, 2025, near Falfurrias with no au

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United States of America v. Sperka Marek

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, criminal defense lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking a Writ of Habeas Corpus/

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Muñoz Materano v. Javier Tomas United States

New York City, New York, civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on an 8th Amendment civil rights deliberate indifference theory. Muñoz Materano v. United States refers to ongoing immigration cases, notably involving Javier Tomas Muñoz Materano, challenging detention/deportation, but it's often confused with the major Supreme Court case Department of State v. Muñoz (2024), wh

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Eduardo Lopez Miranda v. Samuel Olson

Covington, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking a writ of habeas corpus.

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State of Nebraska v. Jason M. Leatherwood

Lincoln, Nebraska, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant seeking a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum.

Legal issue Is a prisoner borrowed from federal custody via a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum entitled to receive credit for time served on state charges?
Headnote

CRIMINAL LAW. CREDIT FOR TIME SERVED. The case addresses whether a prisoner temporarily b

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Anders v. California

Counsel, appointed by a California appellate court on petitioner's motion to prosecute the appeal of his felony conviction, concluded after studying the record and consulting with petitioner that there was no merit to the appeal, and so advised the court. He also advised it that petitioner wished to file a brief in his behalf. Petitioner's request for another attorney was denied. He then filed a b

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State of Oklahoma v. Clifton Merriel Parish

Wilberton, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second degree murder.

The State of Oklahoma, by Mark Matloff, District Attorney of Pushmataha County, petitions this Court for the writ of prohibition to vacate the Respondent Judge Jana Wallace's April 12, 2021 order granting post-conviction relief. Judge Wallace's order vacated and dismissed the second d

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State of Oklahoma v. Billy Znne Deo

Okemah, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with secon-degree burglary and grand larcen and knowingly concealing stolen property.

¶2 On August 15, 2018, Petitioner entered a guilty plea to Second Degree Burglary in Case No. CF-2018-56 and the trial court entered an order deferring his sentencing for seven years. On December 17, 2018, Petitioner was charg

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Malik Allah-U-Akbar, fka Odraye G. Jones v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden

Cleveland, Ohio, civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff seeking a writ of habeas corpus.

Malik Allah-U-Akbar was granted a conditional writ of habeas corpus, “vacating [his] death sentence unless the State of Ohio conducts a new penalty-phase proceeding within 180 days of remand.” Jones v. Bradshaw, 46 F.4th 459, 489 (6th Cir. 2022). The state did not comply with the w

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Richard L. Livingston v. Doulas J. Curtis, ommandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks

Topeak, Kansas, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant seeking a writ of habeas corpus.

Richard Livingston, a former Army warrant officer, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus seeking to vacate his court-martial convictions. 28 U.S.C. § 2241.

On July 29, 2019, a military judge sitting alone as a general court-martial convicted Mr. Livingston of several viola

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State of Idaho v. Robin Lee Row

Boise, Idaho, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with capital murder.

Robin Lee Row was sentenced to death in 1993 for murdering her husband and two
children in their sleep on February 10, 1992. Over the next 30 years, Row filed five petitions for
post-conviction relief in state court and two federal habeas corpus claims, all of which were
unsuccessful.

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Jackson v. Denno

New York City, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder.

Petitioner, after robbing a hotel, fatally wounded a policeman and himself received two bullet wounds. Questioned shortly after arrival at a hospital, he admitted the shooting and the robbery. Some time later, after considerable loss of blood and soon after he had been given drugs, he was inter

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United States of America v. Earl Hardy Morrow

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of heroin with:
possession of child porn and distribution and receipt of child pornography.

Motion to post-conviction relief. 28 U.S.C. § 2255.

(a) A prisoner in custody under sentence of a court established by Act of Congress claiming the right to be released upon the ground that th

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United States of America v. Luis Pablo Estolano-Velasquez. Adan Jaimes-Gomez, Jose Alvarado-Aguirr, Franklin Geovanny Escobar-Matias, Jose Mauricio, Jose Mauricio

Houston, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with

Convicted murderer among 306 people charged in border security-related cases during second week of September



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State of Florida v. India Comer and Shantearia Gaines

Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant seeking writs of habeas corpus.

This case concerns two female juveniles who have been charged as adults and are being held for pretrial detention. India Comer is seventeen years old and charged with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault with a firearm, and possession of a firearm by a juvenile delinquent. Shante

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United States of America v. Ephren Taylor, II

Atlanta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant petitioning for a writ of habeas corpus.

When it comes to federal habeas petitions, finality matters.
Without it, applications for habeas relief can quickly become un-
wieldy. To promote finality, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death
Penalty Act of 1996 (“AEDPA”), 28 U.S.C. §§ 2244(b) and 225

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United States of America v. Lazaro Rosendo Vega

Corpus Christi, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with smuggling illegal aliens

Alamo man guilty of smuggling illegal aliens





A 62-year-ol

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Timothy Fitzgerald Tolliver v. Cameron Harvanek

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking post-conviction relief seeking a writ of habeas corpus.

Tolliver pleaded guilty in state court to four felony charges on April 9, 2021. A
few days later, he filed a letter that the state district court construed as a motion to
withdraw the plea (the Motion). On April 20 the state district court

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Robin O'Neill v. Nicholas Deml

Burlington, Vermont Plaintiff pro se without counsel sought a writ of habeas corpus.

Robin O’Neill, who is serving a life sentence for a
double homicide, appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for
the District of Vermont (Sessions, J.) dismissing her pro se petition for a writ of
habeas corpus made pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district cour

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Raminder Kaur v. Warden, Maryland Correctional Institution for Women

Baltimore, Maryland criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant seeking a writ of habeas corpus.

It would be “intolerable” to require a criminal defendant to surrender “one
constitutional right . . . in order to assert another.” Simmons v. United States, 390 U.S. 377,
394 (1968). Yet that is what Raminder Kaur asserts occurred here. After her first c

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Henock Kaseba Mutamba v. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Concord, New Hampshire civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff seeking a Writ of Habeas Corpus.

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State of Oklahoma v. D.K.S.

Sapulpa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with:

1. TRAFFICKING IN ILLEGAL DRUGS

2. UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA

3. DRIVING WITH LICENSE CANCELLED/SUSPENDED/REVOKED

4. DEFECTIVE VEHICLE

APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF HAVEAS CORPUS AD PROSEQUENDUM 22 o.s. 1151.

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