Carey v. Saffold, No. 01-301 (U.S. Supreme Court) (536 U.S. 214; 122 S.Ct. 2134) (June 17, 2002) (Justice Breyer)
This is one of those heavy habeas corpus decisions that flows from some of the obtuse language of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA). Specifically, the nine Justices of the Supreme Court engaged in one of their now-famous semantical debates over the meaning of the word ...
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