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...flood of frivolous attacks on state court convictions has depreciated the great writ of habeas corpus and has interfered with state judicial administration, Justice Walter V. Schaefer of the Illinois Supreme Court warned yesterday. The writ allows prisoners to challenge the legal grounds on which they are being held...
...Holmes lecture at the Law School, Schaefer said that federal district courts are flooded with many worthless applications for habeas corpus. "Out of 4,849 federal-question habeas corpus cases disposed of from 1946 through 1954," he said, "only 1.6 percent of the petitioners were successful...
...reason for the increase in habeas corpus cases, Schaefer said, can be found in new prison practices and in the higher degree of literacy of prison inmates. "There were almost no habeas corpus petitions from Illinois prisons until it was revealed that they were being bottled up by a system of prison censorship," Schaefer said, "but now more than 3,000 legal documents a year come from the Illinois state prison...
...remedy the situation, Schaefer proposed a screening procedure "by which those few petitions which have merit can be separated from the others." Initial screening could be made by the district courts, he said, and further proceedings by statutory three-judge federal courts...
West Germany, nine months after receiving its sovereignty, had not yet passed even a conscription law, has only 900 volunteers actually in training. Its pfennig-pinching Finance Minister Schaefer protests that the most prosperous country in Europe can only afford a modest $2 billion a year for the new army...