A California appeals court vacated the conviction Friday of a man who has spent the last three decades in prison, finding DNA evidence found at the scene of the crime and tested almost a decade ago does not belong to him.
Read moreA Connecticut appeals court affirmed dismissal of a habeas petition from the Nonhuman Rights Project on behalf of three elephants confined in a zoo, as “the court reasonably found that elephants are not persons and lack standing to file a habeas petition.”
Read moreA D.C. Circuit panel stayed habeas corpus proceedings Monday for a man suspected in playing a role in the 9/11 terror attacks, until his long-delayed military commission trial at Guantanamo Bay has been completed.
Read moreTaking up the case of a Texas man sentenced to 30 years in prison for assault with a deadly weapon, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether his motion for a new trial should be considered a second habeas petition, which would not extend the timeframe to file a notice of appeal.
Read moreShredding a decision that said Guantanamo detainees are not entitled to due process, the D.C. Circuit delivered a pivotal reversal Friday to a Yemeni man who has been held without charges for over 17 years.
Read moreA court in Ecuador freed a Swedish programmer close to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday after more than two months in jail on suspicion of hacking.
Read moreThree politically active sisters, one a former Pennsylvania senator and another a former state Supreme Court justice, challenged their corruption convictions Wednesday at the Third Circuit.
Read moreAn activist group fighting to free three elephants from a Connecticut petting zoo urged an appeals court Monday to revive their case.
Read moreA federal judge denied habeas relief to a man imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay since 2004, as evidence shows he more likely than not provided substantial support to al-Qaida and its affiliates.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday tossed a civil rights class action brought by late rapper Tupac Shakur’s stepfather against the Federal Bureau of Prisons, finding a habeas corpus petition, not a class action, is the vehicle to address claims of sham parole hearings and rights violations.
Read moreAn Ivorian asylum seeker who has spent nearly three years behind bars gained a chance at freedom Thursday after a federal judge blasted his continuing detention as an affront to democratic society.
Read moreAn Iraqi-born political asylee and legal permanent U.S. resident who served as a guide for U.S. troops, and whose brother was murdered and father tortured by the Islamic State group in revenge for it, filed a habeas petition seeking relief from a private prison in Conroe, Texas.
Read moreFighting to end the 41-year captivity at the Bronx Zoo of an Asian elephant named Happy, a nonprofit says the legal battle it started has been languishing in a court west of Rochester for over a month.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit rejected an application from a California prisoner convicted of murder to file a second habeas corpus petition due to his failure to discover alleged suppressed evidence while filing his previous petition.
Read moreThough they agreed that the case did not merit review, Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg voiced grave concerns Monday at the rejection of a death-penalty challenge.
Read moreThe Justice Department’s Office for Victims of Crime boosted its budget this year but nixed funding for a vital legal service that helps human trafficking survivors move forward: expungement of prostitution charges.
Read moreAn ACLU attorney told a Ninth Circuit panel Thursday the U.S. government’s refusal to grant asylum to a Sri Lankan member of the Tamil ethnic minority or allow him to appeal the decision is unconstitutional.
Read moreExplaining why it refused to let an undisclosed country take custody of a man suspected of fighting for the Islamic State group, the D.C. Circuit noted that the U.S. government’s maneuver appears unprecedented.
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