A prisoner’s bid to develop new evidence rests on a 233-year-old statute about judicial writs
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 25, 2022
This statute, which was originally part of the Judiciary Act of 1789, empowers federal courts to “issue all writs” (i.e., orders) that aid the exercise of their jurisdiction even though no statute expressly authorizes the orders. In 1993, Raymond Twyford was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to death in Ohio.
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