U.S. Appeals Court: EXECUTION.Miller ex rel ex rel. conj. abbreviation for Latin ex relatione, meaning "upon being related" or "upon information," used in the title of a legal proceeding filed by a state attorney general (or the federal Department of Justice) on behalf of the government, on the instigation of . Jones v. Stewart, 231 F.3d 1248(9th Cir. 2000). An attorney with a county public defenders public defender, governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was officer moved to proceed as next friend to stay the execution of a prisoner who had declined to seek federal habeas corpus habeas corpus (hā`bēəs kôr`pəs) [Lat.,=you should have the body], writ directed by a judge to some person who is detaining another, commanding him to bring the body of the person in his custody at a specified time to a relief and refused to be represented by an attorney in doing so. The district court denied the motion and dismissed the habeas petition, but issued a certificate of appealability. The attorney appealed and requested a stay of execution. The appeals court granted the stay and remanded the case to district court for an evidentiary ev·i·den·tia·ry adj. Law 1. Of evidence; evidential. 2. For the presentation or determination of evidence: an evidentiary hearing. Adj. 1. hearing on the offenders competence to choose to die and the voluntariness of that decision. (Pima County Public Defenders Office, Arizona) |
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