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I feel like a vessel for a soul rather than a corpus burdened by physics and gravity.

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The habeas corpus complaint repeatedly characterized a teenage Fiorella as a shy, quiet child who was teased by peers for being “slow.”

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All those motherf***ers who are out there arresting U.S. citizens, violating habeas corpus and bending rules to enforce a police state deserve a lot more than a sandwich dumped on them.

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Even worse, on June 16 Paxton asked a trial judge to set a new execution date for Roberson — without waiting for the Court of Criminal Appeals to decide on his habeas corpus petition.

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The Honduran woman, not named in court documents, filed a petition for writs of habeas corpus, challenging the legality of her and her family’s detention at a Texas facility.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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