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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
Proof By Confession, O. John Rogge
Legal History In The High Court--Habeas Corpus, Dallin H. Oaks
Legal History In The High Court--Habeas Corpus, Dallin H. Oaks
Michigan Law Review
Ever since Chief Justice Marshall declared that courts could resort to the common law to determine what Congress meant by the term "habeas corpus" in a federal statute, the history of this venerable remedy has played an important role in the Supreme Court. Over the years, however, courts have moved away from using the writ of habeas corpus for its historic functions of eliciting the cause of commitment and compelling adherence to prescribed procedures in advance of trial until today it has become primarily a means by which one court of general jurisdiction exercises post-conviction review over the judgment of …