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Harmonizing Equitable Exceptions: Why Courts Should Recognize An “Actual Innocence” Exception To The Aedpa’S Statute Of Limitations, Morgan Suder

San Diego Law Review

This Comment argues that to neutralize this potential inequality, the Supreme Court should affirm the Ninth Circuit’s recent decision in Lee v. Lampert, finding that a credible claim of actual innocence constitutes an equitable exception to the AEDPA’s one-year statute of limitations period. District courts must be able to call on their equitable powers, including both equitable principles already applied to the AEDPA’s statute of limitations as well as the actual innocence exception, in determining whether a district court may consider the merits of a criminal defendant’s otherwise untimely habeas petition.

Part II discusses the role of federal habeas corpus …

Federal Procedure: Proposed Solutions To The Problem Of Proliferation Of Petitions For The Writ Of Habeas Corpus And 28 U.S.C. 2255 Proceedings In The Federal Courts, David Pitkin, Ray Shollenbarger

San Diego Law Review

The Writ of Habeas Corpus is a limit on arbitrary government. The proliferation of this writ has created a problem in the federal courts. The proliferation problem is due to the application of the Bill of Rights to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, the changes in procedural rules involving hearing habeas petitions, and the fact that the doctrine of res judicata does not apply to habeas proceedings. Two U.S. Supreme Court cases dealt the final blow to this proliferation problem by requiring evidentiary hearings when a substantive constitutional question or § 2255 was presented. This Article proposes possible solutions …