Vanhorne v. Dorrance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that habeas relief is precluded where “none of [the Supreme 3 Court’s] cases confront ‘the specific question presented . . .’”
• leaving the question open as to “what if any showing” would entitle an indigent defendant to non-psychiatric assistance as a matter of federal constitutional law
• “The [Pennsylvania] legislature . . . had no authority to make an act devesting one citizen of his freehold, and vesting it in another, without a just compensation.”
• claim to title under Pennsylvania law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).