[DOWNLOAD] "Braden v. 30Th Judicial Circuit Court Kentucky" by Supreme Court of the United States " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Braden v. 30Th Judicial Circuit Court Kentucky
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 28, 1973
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 83 KB
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Petitioner is presently serving a sentence in an Alabama prison. He applied to the District Court for the Western District of Kentucky for a writ of federal habeas corpus, alleging denial of his constitutional right to a speedy trial, Smith v. Hooey, 393 U.S. 374 (1969), and praying that an order issue directing respondent to afford him an immediate trial on a then three-year-old Kentucky indictment. We are to consider whether, as petitioner was not physically present within the territorial limits of the District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, the provision of 28 U. S. C. ? 2241 (a) that "writs of habeas corpus may be granted by the . . . district courts . . . within their respective jurisdictions " (emphasis supplied), precluded the District Court from