In re Phyle’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““A District Judge’s examination and scrutiny of a petition of this nature is usually attendant with extreme difficulty, for as a rule, applications are presented at a late hour — and often when the condemned man is being made ready for the death-chamber.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rupp v. Teets