Habeas Corpus: Fourth Circuit Allows Writ to Issue to State Prisoner Not Yet Serving Sentence Under Attack

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Abstract

By manipulating the concept of custody to include the legal effects of a conviction precedent to service of sentence, the Fourth Circuit has extended the use of the writ of habeas corpus into new and perhaps questionable areas.

Citation

Habeas Corpus: Fourth Circuit Allows Writ to Issue to State Prisoner Not Yet Serving Sentence Under Attack, 1966 Duke Law Journal 588-598 (1966)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol15/iss2/12