habeas corpus

To do that, the activists are relying on the writ of habeas corpus, a legal protection for imprisoned people.

An appellate court later that year also denied habeas corpus relief to Happy.

The prisoner, Abu Zubaydah, who has never been charged with a crime, has been waiting 14 years for a federal judge to rule on his habeas corpus petition that challenges the legality of his detention.

The Supreme Court in 2008 ruled that noncitizen detainees at the prison have the right, known as habeas corpus, to go to court to challenge their detention.

I will fight if someone tries to take away from me and those I love the rule of law, trial by jury, the writ of habeas corpus, and a government with nobody above the law.

They hate that Lincoln suspended habeas corpus; they never note that Jefferson Davis did, too.

The ringleader was Willie Mak, and he got the death penalty, a sentence later overturned in federal habeas corpus proceedings.

Greenpeace and student activists were outlawed and habeas corpus was suspended.

Now, if you please, Senator McCain, in the spirit of habeas corpus, show me the body.

English act of habeas corpus passed; the act suspending it was repealed, probably forever, 1818.

One of the most familiar actions is habeas corpus, which is employed to recover a person's liberty from illegal restraint.

First of all, he brought an action—a writ of habeas corpus, I think—to recover his daughter, as an English subject.

On the presentation of the first report of the committee the government brought in a bill to suspend the habeas corpus act.

It robs men of the jury trial, it robs them of habeas corpus, and forty other things.