Court Opinion

ID: 4056517
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-09-29 08:00:33.200338+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:31:35.917509
License: Public Domain

Abel Acos'ta, Clerk
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                                                     VII.
                                    GUIDANCE      OF OUR    FOREFATHERS

           Defendant respectfully expresaea his               ~t       desire   for the District
     COUrt.      to    remain mindful that t.be peramount foCus in this partic:ular judicial
     matter       •ie not the (Defendant's] innoc:enc:e or guilt, but solely whether [his)
     constitutional rights have been pnaened.• Accord Moon v. Dempsey, 261                   u.s.

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86,    87-88            see alae Irvin v. Dovd, 366 u.s. 717, 722 (1961) (habeas
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corpus relief available to J:edress due proc:esa violations •regardless of
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the heinousness of the crime ••• (and] the apparent guilt of thft offendec' 11 )~
Ex parte Milligan, 71 u.s. (4 Nall.) 2, 118-19 (1866) (•(I]t is the birthright
of every American citizen vhen charged with a crime, to be tried and punished
according to the law o 1'00 power of punishment is &lone through the means
vbich the laws have provided for that purpose, &nd if they are ineffectual,
there is an . inlmmity from punishment, no ftll!\tter how gnat an offender an
individual may be, or how much his crimea may have ehcx:ked the sense of just-
ice of the country, . or encl&ngend ita safety. By the protection of the law,
human rights are sec:uretf)
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