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NOTES FROM A JAILHOUSE LAWYER: “Great Expectations” or “The Unfairness of the AEDPA's One Year Time Limit for Collateral Attacks on a Judgment of Conviction”

In the first installment of Notes from a Jailhouse Lawyer, Terry Antalek from Ellsworth Correctional Facility explains the injustice of placing a fixed time limit for filing a federal habeas corpus petition. “Many newly convicted individuals are not even aware that habeas corpus remedies exist,” he writes. “Many attorneys never inform their convicted clients of these remedies. Often it's too late when the prisoner learns of these remedies.”

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