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28 U.S.C. § 2256

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Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA)
Federal law that introduced a one-year statute of limitations for habeas corpus petitions by state prisoners and imposed significant deference to state-court adjudications. Codified across 28 U.S.C. and 18 U.S.C.
28 U.S.C. §§ 2241–2266

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