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November 22, 2024
High Court Bar's Future: Sullivan & Cromwell's Morgan Ratner
Morgan L. Ratner has emerged as a leader of the U.S. Supreme Court bar's next generation, and she attributes her ascent to brilliant mentors, a laid-back argument style, an aversion to overconfidence and a firm commitment to clear principles in every case — even if that means reluctantly telling the chief justice, as she once did, that a hypothetical cat stuck in a tree shouldn't be saved.
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July 21, 2023
How Habeas Corpus Ruling May Condemn Innocent Prisoners
To Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson, it sounded absurd: Why would legally innocent people — convicted under interpretations of the law that the U.S. Supreme Court later found to be wrong — be denied a chance to seek release from prison?
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June 22, 2023
Justices Say No Habeas For Retroactively Innocent Inmates
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that federal prisoners are barred from petitioning federal courts to get their sentences overturned after new case law makes them retroactively innocent, dealing the latest blow to a legal process known as habeas corpus.
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October 28, 2022
Habeas Case May Open Prison Door For Retroactive Innocents
When the Supreme Court rules on criminal law, it sometimes makes prisoners retroactively innocent of their crimes. This court term, in a case involving a Missouri man imprisoned for over 20 years for possessing a gun as a felon, the court will clarify whether federal prisoners can file writs of habeas corpus after new case law makes them legally innocent.
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May 16, 2022
Justices To Weigh Reach Of Habeas 'Safety Valve'
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it will consider whether prisoners can challenge their sentences through petitions for writs of habeas corpus after new case law retroactively renders them innocent, resolving what a petitioner described as "kaleidoscopic chaos" on the issue between circuits.