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ATKINS v. PEOPLE OF STATE OF MICH.

Civ. No. 79-74405.

488 F.Supp. 402 (1980)

Aaron Clinton ATKINS, Petitioner, v. PEOPLE OF the STATE OF MICHIGAN, William L. Cahalan, Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney and William Lucas, Wayne County Sheriff, Respondents.

United States District Court, E. D. Michigan, S. D.

April 15, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward F. Bell, Bell & Hudson, Detroit, Mich., for petitioner.

Anne B. Wetherholt, Asst. Wayne County Pros. Atty., Detroit, Mich., for respondents.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ANNA DIGGS TAYLOR, District Judge.

"We do well to bear in mind the extraordinary prestige of the Great Writ, habeas corpus ad subjiciendum, in Anglo-American jurisprudence: `the most celebrated writ in the English law.' 3 Blackstone Commentaries 129. It is `a writ antecedent to statute, and throwing its root deep into the genius of our common law . . . It is perhaps the most important writ known to the constitutional law of...

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