This is a brief research guide on the topic of a writ of habeas corpus.

A writ of habeas corpus is authorized by statute in federal courts and in all state courts.  It commands an individual or a government official who has restrained another to produce the prisoner at a designated time and place so that the court can determine the legality of custody and decide whether to order the prisoner's release.  A Writ of Habeas Corpus is mentioned in the U.S. Constitution in Article I, Section 9, Clause 2. This clause provides, "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."

U.S. Const. art. 1, § 9, cl. 2

An Act to Establish the Judicial Courts of  the United States.

Habeas Corpus Jurisdiction in the Federal Courts

The term habeas corpus refers most commonly to the writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum, which directs the custodian of a prisoner to bring that prisoner before a court and explain the reasons for his or her confinement.

Petition for Writ of Habeas CorpusUnder 28 U.S.C. § 2254

Habeas Corpus Petitions.

State Courts: Georgia

Georgia's original constitution of 1777 was the first state constitution in history to make access to the writ a constitutional right, and every subsequent Georgia Constitution has included a habeas corpus clause protecting the writ.  Habeas Corpus:  O.C.G.A. § 9-14-1 - § 9-14-53

Bales v. Lowery, No. S16A0200., 2016 BL 178843 (2016)

Blanton v. DeLoach, No. 2:16-cv-32, 2016 BL 194525 (2016)

Fitzgerald v. Atkinson, No. 2:16-cv-50, 2016 BL 194618 (2016)

Hayward v. Danforth, No. S16A0419., 2016 BL 195842 (2016)

Mora-Gonzalez v. Johns, No. 5:14-cv-100, 2016 BL 194537 (2016)

Sopo v. Att'y Gen., No. 14-11421, 2016 BL 190040 (2016)

Stewart v. Flournoy, No. 2:15-ev-90, 2016 BL 194546 (2016)

Thornton v. Flournoy, No. 2:16-cv-70, 2016 BL 194472 (2016)

Williams v. Baker, No. 2:15-cv-118, 2016 BL 194442 (2016)

Williams v. Warden, No. 2:15-cv-117, 2016 BL 194550 (2016)

Williams v. Warden, F.S.L. Jesup, GA, No. 5:15-cv-63, 2016 BL 194617 (2016)

Buckner v. Barrow, 297 Ga. 68, 772 S.E.2d 703 (2015)

State v. Cusack, 296 Ga. 534, 769 S.E.2d 370 (2015)

Tolbert v. Toole, 296 Ga. 357, 767 S.E.2d 24 (2014)

Humphrey v. Walker, 294 Ga. 855, 757 S.E.2d 68 (2014

Sears v. Humphrey, 294 Ga. 117, 751 S.E.2d 365 (2013)

Humphrey v. Nance, 293 Ga. 189, 744 S.E.2d 706 (2013)

Valldeparas v. State, 319 Ga. App. 491, 735 S.E.2d 816 (2012)

State v. Sosa, 291 Ga. 734, 733 S.E.2d 262 (2012)

Humphrey v. Riley, 291 Ga. 534, 731 S.E.2d 740 (2012)

Humphrey v. Lewis, 291 Ga. 202, 728 S.E.2d 603 (2012)

Barker v. Barrow, 290 Ga. 711, 723 S.E.2d 905 (2012)

Cox v. Howerton, 290 Ga. 693, 723 S.E.2d 891 (2012)

Walker v. Hagins, 290 Ga. 512, 722 S.E.2d 725 (2012)

Humphrey v. Morrow, 289 Ga. 864, 717 S.E.2d 168 (2011)

Brown v. Crawford, 289 Ga. 722, 715 S.E.2d 132 (2011)

Johnson v. Smith, 280 Ga. 235, 626 S.E.2d 470 (2006)

Bradford v. Brown, 277 Ga. 92, 586 S.E.2d 631 (2003)

Hogan v. Nagel, 276 Ga. 197, 576 S.E.2d 873 (2003)

Rainwater v. Langley, 277 Ga. 127, 587 S.E.2d 18 (2003)

Fortson v. State, 272 Ga. 457 (2000)

Fullwood v. Sivley, 271 Ga. 248, 517 S.E.2d 511 (1999)

Nelson v. Zant, 261 Ga. 358, 405 S.E.2d 250 (1991)

Fay v. Noia, 372 U.S. 391, 83 S. Ct. 822, 9 L. Ed. 2d 837 (1963)

Balkoom v. Parris, 215 Ga. 122 (1859)

Andrews v. Strong, 33 Ga. Supp. 164 (1864)

State v. Philpot, 1 Ga. Ann. 375 (1831)

Marc M. Arkin, “The Ghost at the Banquet: Slavery, Federalism, and Habeas Corpus for State Prisoners.” Tulane Law Review 70, no. 1 (Nov. 1995): 1-73.

Cary Federman, “Habeas Corpus in the Age of Guantanamo.” Annals of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, Year LVIII, no. 3 (2010): 215-234.

Eric M. Freedman, "Habeas Corpus in Three Dimensions Dimension I: Habeas Corpus as a Common Law Writ." Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 46, (July 1, 2011): 591. LexisNexis Academic: Law Reviews, EBSCOhost (accessed June 15, 2016).

Christian G. Fritz, “A Nineteenth Century ‘Habeas Corpus Mill’: The Chinese Before the Federal Courts in California.” American Journal of Legal History 32, no. 4 (Oct. 1988): 347-372.

Brandon L. Garrett, "Habeas Corpus and Due Process." Cornell Law Review 98, (2012): 47. LexisNexis Academic: Law Reviews, EBSCOhost (accessed June 15, 2016).

Andrew Gold. "The Antebellum Constitutions of Two Southern States Compared and Contrasted: South Carolina and Tennessee." The Journal of Southern Legal History 23: (2015) 1-19,21-25, http://proxygsu-jmls.galileo.usg.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/1791898155?accountid=11736.

Brian M. Hoffstadt,. "How Congress Might Redesign a Leaner, Cleaner Writ of Habeas Corpus." Duke Law Journal 49, (2000): 947. LexisNexis Academic: Law Reviews, EBSCOhost (accessed June 15, 2016).

Lucy Salyer, “Captives of Law: Judicial Enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Laws, 1891-1905.” The Journal of American History 76, no. 1 (June 1898): 91-117.

Jonathan Shaw, The War and the Writ: Habeas Corpus and Security in an Age of Terrorism. Harvard Magazine. January-February, 2009.

Amanda L. Tyler, "Habeas Corpus and the American Revolution." California Law Review 103, (2015). 635. LexisNexis Academic: Law Reviews, EBSCOhost (accessed June 15, 2016).

Jill Wasserman. "Has Habeas Corpus Been Suspended in Georgia? Representing Indigent Prisoners on Georgia's Death Row." Georgia State University Law Review 17, (2000): 605. LexisNexis Academic: Law Reviews, EBSCOhost (accessed June 15, 2016).

William M. Wiecek, “The Great Writ and Reconstruction: The Habeas Corpus Act of 1867.” The Journal of Southern History 36, no. 4 (Nov. 1970): 530-548.

Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., "A New Role for an Ancient Writ: Post-conviction Habeas Corpus Relief in Georgia (Part), 8 Ga. L. Rev. 313, 314 (1974).

Donald E. Wilkes Jr., " The Writ of Habeas Corpus in Georgia ", Popular Media  (2007): 63.

Donald E. Wilkes Jr., "From Oglethorpe to the Overthrow of the Confederacy: Habeas Corpus in Georgia, 1733-1865," Georgia Law Review 45 (summer 2011): 1015-72.

Donald E. Wilkes Jr.,. "Essay in Honor of Professor Erwin C. Surrency (1924-2012): Habeas Corpus Proceedings in the High Court of Parliament in the Reign of James I, 1603-1625." American Journal Of Legal History 54, (2014) 200. LexisNexis Academic: Law Reviews, EBSCOhost (accessed June 15, 2016).

Donald E. Wilkes Jr., "The Great Writ Hit: The Curtailment of Habeas Corpus in Georgia since 1967," John Marshall Law Journal 7 (spring 2014): 415-526.

Donald E. Wilkes, Jr. "The Great Writ in the Peach State: Georgia Habeas Corpus, 1865-1965,"The Journal of Southern Legal History, 22, (2014), 233-300. Retrieved from http://proxygsu-jmls.galileo.usg.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/1681114285?accountid=11736

Ursula Bentele, State and Federal Postconviction Remedies: Last Hopes. New York: LexisNexis, 2014.

Linda E. Carter, Ellen S. Kreitzberg, Scott W. Howe, Understanding Capital Punishment, 3d ed., New York: LexisNexis, 2012.

Kristine M. Fox, Capital 2254 Habeas Cases: A Pocket Guide for Judges. Washington, D.C. : Federal Judicial Center, 2012.

Eric M. Freedman, Habeas Corpus: Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

Stanley I. Kutler, Judicial Power and Reconstruction Politics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1968.

Justin J. Wert, Habeas Corpus in America: The Politics of Individual Rights. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011.

Charles Alan Wright, et al. Federal Practice and Procedure, vol. 16B. St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 1996.

______, et al. Federal Practice and Procedure, vol. 17B. St. Paul: Thomson/West, 2007.