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What You'll Find Here

 

The content of the HAT webpage is intended to help defense counsel become familiar with the essential principals involved in representing death sentenced clients in habeas corpus proceedings.

We provide:

  1. A calendar describing Upcoming Seminars relating to death penalty defense.

  2. Current Developments and Recent Cases about Habeas and Death Penalty issues from newspapers, magazines, law review articles, social science journals, editorials and slip opinions.

  3. An Introduction to 8th Amendment Law and other constitutional provisions relevant to capital representation.

  4. Information about Recent Filings and Actions in the Supreme Court including the actual petitions for writ of certiorari pending in pertinent cases, the briefs of the parties in cases in which certiorari has been granted but the case not decided, and synopses of recent decisions.

  5. The Federal Habeas Corpus Update , a bi-annual compilation of summaries of all pertinent federal court decisions interpreting the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 amendments to the federal habeas corpus statutes, federal court decisions applying pre AEDPA provisions, and federal and state court decisions interpreting the 6th, 8th, and 14th amendments.

  6. Legal arguments on issues of interest to habeas litigators as they appear in Recent Briefs before the circuits and the Supreme Court.

  7. Compilations of successful cases on Constitutional Issues common in capital habeas corpus litigation. Included in this section are cases addressing state misconduct, the right to competent expert assistance, the right to effective assistance of counsel, and the right to unbiased and untainted jurors and judges.

  8. The names, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of People to Help You with your habeas case.  A broad range of individuals and organizations throughout the country are available to offer you answers to you questions, recommendations concerning other resources, and plenty of good advice.

  9. Presentations from Past Seminars on habeas representation, available on the secure portion of the werbsite, will allow you to learn from some of the most qualified and experienced habeas experts in the nation.

  10. Cites to Sites on the World Wide Web that are of interest to the habeas practitioner.