Carlson v. Jess, No. 06C0481 (E.D.Wisc.) (507 F.Supp.2d 968) (September 4, 2007) (Judge Lynn S. Adelman)
One of the many abominations of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 ("AEDPA") was that it threw out more than 200 years of carefully-reasoned precedent relating to the Great Writ of habeas corpus, which for centuries functioned as the "symbol and guardian of individual liberty." Peyton v. ...