What is the impact of the AEDPA on the law of habeas corpus?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Montero v. Mendoza-Powers, No. 2:08-cv-01999 KJN P (E.D. Cal. 2010):
The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act ("AEDPA") "worked substantial changes to the law of habeas corpus," establishing more deferential standards of review to be used by a federal habeas court in assessing a state court's adjudication of a criminal defendant's claims of constitutional error. Moore v. Calderon, 108 F.3d 261, 263 (9th Cir. 1997).
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