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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that federal prisoners are barred from petitioning federal courts to get their sentences overturned after new case law makes them retroactively innocent, dealing the latest blow to a legal process known as habeas corpus.
When the Supreme Court rules on criminal law, it sometimes makes prisoners retroactively innocent of their crimes. This court term, in a case involving a Missouri man imprisoned for over 20 years for possessing a gun as a felon, the court will clarify whether federal prisoners can file writs of habeas corpus after new case law makes them legally innocent.
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