Add to ORKGPetitioner, sentenced to death in California for murder, obtained a judicial stay of execution on the ground that he had become insane since sentence had been passed. Eighteen days later he was certified as sane by the medical superintendent of the state hospital, who made this determination by an ex parte examination without giving petitioner notice or opportunity of hearing. A new date for execution was then set. The applicable statute provided a procedure, enforceable by mandamus, whereby a sentenced prisoner could obtain a hearing on his sanity. The petitioner, without seeking mandamus to compel the warden to act, applied for habeas corpus to obtain judicial sanity hearing. This being denied, he was granted a writ of certiorari from the...
On May 25, 2011, in Beaty v. Brewer, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that a pri...
Respondent, a convict, was apprehended in Ohio after escaping from an Alabama prison. He attempted t...
Opposing counsel\u27s objection to material in petitioner\u27s opening statement to the jury was sus...
Petitioner was convicted of murder in a Georgia court and sentenced to die by electrocution. He made...
On May 16, 1932, petitioner, then seventeen years of age, was arraigned, tried, convicted of murder ...
Petitioner was convicted of murder in the first degree with a recommendation for life imprisonment. ...
Petitioner, under a life sentence imposed by a state court, brought a writ of habeas corpus alleging...
The U.S. Supreme Court has declared it unconstitutional to execute death row inmates who are too ins...
Petitioner was tried before a jury on a charge of larceny, convicted and sentenced to a penitentiary...
The United States Supreme Court has held that a parolee\u27s liberty involves significant values wit...
Defendant was convicted of first degree murder after having pleaded insanity as a defense to the cha...
This comment will not attempt to consider the guarantees of a fair trial, but will deal with the rem...
Petitioner, a nineteen year old Negro, was convicted of rape in a circuit court of Alabama. The conv...
Plaintiff was granted a pardon upon the condition that if he failed to conduct himself as a useful, ...
Petitioners, military personnel, were convicted by courts martial of rape and murder. After exhausti...
On May 25, 2011, in Beaty v. Brewer, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that a pri...
Respondent, a convict, was apprehended in Ohio after escaping from an Alabama prison. He attempted t...
Opposing counsel\u27s objection to material in petitioner\u27s opening statement to the jury was sus...
Petitioner was convicted of murder in a Georgia court and sentenced to die by electrocution. He made...
On May 16, 1932, petitioner, then seventeen years of age, was arraigned, tried, convicted of murder ...
Petitioner was convicted of murder in the first degree with a recommendation for life imprisonment. ...
Petitioner, under a life sentence imposed by a state court, brought a writ of habeas corpus alleging...
The U.S. Supreme Court has declared it unconstitutional to execute death row inmates who are too ins...
Petitioner was tried before a jury on a charge of larceny, convicted and sentenced to a penitentiary...
The United States Supreme Court has held that a parolee\u27s liberty involves significant values wit...
Defendant was convicted of first degree murder after having pleaded insanity as a defense to the cha...
This comment will not attempt to consider the guarantees of a fair trial, but will deal with the rem...
Petitioner, a nineteen year old Negro, was convicted of rape in a circuit court of Alabama. The conv...
Plaintiff was granted a pardon upon the condition that if he failed to conduct himself as a useful, ...
Petitioners, military personnel, were convicted by courts martial of rape and murder. After exhausti...
On May 25, 2011, in Beaty v. Brewer, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that a pri...
Respondent, a convict, was apprehended in Ohio after escaping from an Alabama prison. He attempted t...
Opposing counsel\u27s objection to material in petitioner\u27s opening statement to the jury was sus...