Inmates already receive counsel in Federal habeas corpus proceedings, but many are without legal assistance at the state court stage.

In 1994, Davis began habeas corpus proceedings, filing a petition in state court alleging that he had been wrongfully convicted and that his death sentence was a miscarriage of justice.

The other Powell recommendation rejected by the conference called for the states to provide counsel for indigent defendants in state habeas corpus proceedings.

He also said the Administration would renew efforts to streamline Federal habeas corpus proceedings that officials say are used to unduly delay executions.

The stay had been requested on the grounds that "the Attorney General for the State of Tennessee . . . perpetrated a fraud upon the district court during Workman's habeas corpus proceedings".

I rather think, if Judge Holland were listening to this, habeas corpus proceedings- for all of us-might be rather prompt.

The court said that there was a less urgent need for appointed counsel in Federal habeas corpus proceedings, because the Federal courts could refer to the record compiled in the state court proceeding.

More than half of all death sentences are overturned as a result of Federal habeas corpus proceedings.

It was in this capacity that Prasow took on the representation of ten Saudi detainees at Guantanamo Bay in their habeas corpus proceedings in federal court.

On November 9, 1974, the Court noted that although by now Calley had been "paroled" from confinement by the Army, that did not moot the habeas corpus proceedings.