Georgia’s Four-Year Habeas Deadline Traps Innocent People in Deadly Prisons
Georgia's 2004 law imposing a four-year deadline for habeas corpus petitions violates the U.S. Constitution and traps potentially innocent people in a prison system where over 100 homicides occurred in 2024 alone. In 2004, Georgia became one of the most restrictive states in the nation by imposing a four-year deadline for felony habeas corpus petitions—the …