In Re Devin T. McGhee v. the State of Texas

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• suggesting that the plenary power of inquiry on federal habeas corpus would not create incentives for defendants to withhold claims in state proceedings
• commenting that a writ of habeas corpus is a “civil remedy for the enforcement of the right to personal liberty, rather than” a criminal proceeding
• commenting that a writ of habeas corpus is a “civil remedy for the enforcement of the right to personal liberty, rather than” a criminal proceeding
• explaining that the habeas corpus proceeding is “independen[t] . . . from what has gone before”
• commenting that a writ of habeas corpus is a “civil remedy for the enforcement of the right to personal liberty, rather than” a criminal proceeding
• noting that at common law, the writ of habeas corpus redressed “restraints contrary to fundamental law, by whatever authority imposed” (emphasis added)

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