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The fathers asked for a writ of habeas corpus to free their sons.

Habeas Corpus: The Menendez brothers’ last path to freedom hinges on a habeas corpus petition filed last year, which seeks review of new evidence that was not presented at the trial.

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“The Japanese in California should be under armed guard to the last man and woman right now and to hell with habeas corpus until the danger is over,” Pegler wrote.

Previous efforts by the brothers and their attorneys to cut short their incarceration have been fruitless, but a new writ of habeas corpus citing new evidence is being considered by the Dist.

Under a second Trump regime, free speech, freedom of the press and freedom of assembly, due process, unreasonable search and seizure, and habeas corpus, in particular, will all be up for grabs.

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