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· 8/31/2023

Kamorion Lamar Meachem v. the State of Texas

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  • recognizing the exhaustion requirement applied to courts-martial when the accused could gain complete relief before such tribunals
  • recognizing the exhaustion requirement applied to courts-martial when the accused could gain complete relief before such tribunals
  • recognizing the exhaustion requirement applied to courts-martial when the accused could gain complete relief before such tribunals
  • explaining that exhaustion enables “an administrative agency to perform functions within its special competence—to make a factual record, to apply its expertise, and to correct its own errors so as to moot judicial controversies”
  • “[T]he writ of habeas corpus has long been recognized as the appropriate remedy for servicemen who claim to be unlawfully retained in the armed forces.”
  • serviceman who had applied for discharge as conscientious objector and had exhausted administrative remedies was entitled to seek habeas corpus relief in federal court

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