Carrie Gentry v. Doris Deuth, Warden, Kentucky Correctional Institute for Women

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “A federal district court retains jurisdiction to determine whether a party has complied with the terms of a conditional order in a habeas case.”
• “As a practical, logical, and necessary matter, relief from the collateral consequences of an unconstitutionally obtained state criminal conviction effectively requires expungement of the conviction from the petitioner’s record.... ”
• “Absolute grants are . . . generally limited to situations where the nature of the error is simply incurable, such as a conviction under an unconstitutional statute.”
• “A federal district court retains jurisdiction to determine whether a party has complied with the terms of a conditional order in a habeas case.” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• “If the state complies with [the district court’s] order, the petitioner will not be released; if the state fails to comply with its order, release will occur.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Conditional grants of writs of habeas corpus are final orders . . . and they ordinarily and ideally operate automatically, that is, without the need for the district court to act further.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).