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No right to delay habeas appeals over mental competency, unanimous court rules

The National Law Journal

January 8, 2013

A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that mentally ill prisoners do not have a right to put off their federal habeas corpus appeals while they try to regain mental competency.

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