The History Of Habeas Corpus

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by the late Wally Farrell, Certified Criminal Law Spcialist, San Bernardino and Riverside County, California. Originally printed in 2004 and reprinted with permission from Crime, Justice and America magazine Habeas corpus (roughly, “you should have the body”) has been a capstone of Anglo-American jurisprudence for many centuries, beginning in 1215: Abuses by King John led […]

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