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...Federal Government. Overnight George Crawford became a national headline character potentially as famous as that other obscure Negro, Dred Scott.* Into the Boston court of U. S. District Judge James Arnold Lowell, cousin of Harvard's president, had gone N. A. A. C. P. attorneys seeking a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Lowell, an individualist on & off the bench where he has sat for eleven years, granted the writ. His legal reasoning: Virginia does not permit Negroes to serve on juries; therefore any conviction of George Crawford would be voided by the Supreme Court as contrary to the 14th...
...witnesses' bond. Wishing not only to keep his witnesses secure but also alive, the prosecutor had their collective bail raised to $750,000. An atmosphere of mystery surrounded the next attempt to free the witnesses against their wishes. One midnight Weiner's brother Moe obtained a writ of habeas corpus for all three on the grounds that Weiner's "wife was sick and business going to pieces." "You mind your own business," cried terrified Sam Weiner who, with Attorney Foley, had become convinced that his brother was being used as a lethal tool of gangland. Mastermind behind...
Latin scholars may be satisfied with your interpretations of the meaning of the words "habeas corpus," TIME, Feb. 20, "Law Thaw," but lawyers are not. You apparently suggest that this ancient writ is addressed to the imprisoned man's friend or counsel, when you translate the words "You may have the body," but the words are to be treated as a command, "You shall have the body," and are addressed to the sheriff or such other person as may be holding the "body" in custody. The writ reads something like this. "We command that you shall have the body...
...prisoner for a hearing before a magistrate on the charges and evidence' against the prisoner, or straightway release him. Long before the Magna Charta (1215) Anglo-Saxons wrested from king and barons the freeman's right to that piece of paper. It was, and is, called a writ of habeas corpus ("you may have the body"). It is issued on the theory that a man is innocent until the state has proved him guilty of a crime...
When the three Doukhobors arrived in Halifax they pretended to be pessimistic about their chances of saving Peter Verigin II. But just as the Montcalm was about to sail, a sheriff rushed aboard, served the captain with a writ. Peter Verigin II was taken ashore. This week Canadian immigration authorities were to appear in court, show cause for his detention...