Ed Bryant said "Literally, ``habeas corpus'' means ``you have the body.'' It started out in the 1800s, as I remember reading, where people who were wrongfully convicted, or even perhaps kept in jail without a trial, used that as a mechanism to have a hearing to get out of jail. What has developed over the years, though, has been a system of, I believe, abuse by people in the jail who filed habeas corpus petition after petition over a period of years, with the net effect of being able to, particularly in death penalty cases, to delay the implementation of their death sentence effectively." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordFebruary 8, 1995

Literally, ``habeas corpus'' means ``you have the body.'' It started out in the 1800s, as I remember reading, where people who were wrongfully convicted, or even perhaps kept in jail without a trial, used that as a mechanism to have a hearing to get out of jail. What has developed over the years, though, has been a system of, I believe, abuse by people in the jail who filed habeas corpus petition after petition over a period of years, with the net effect of being able to, particularly in death penalty cases, to delay the implementation of their death sentence effectively.

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Ed Bryant

Tennessee

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of habeas corpus petitions in the context of death penalty cases.

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