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![handle is hein.death/habcra0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 103D CONGRESS 1 { REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 103-470
HABEAS CORPUS REVISION ACT OF 1994
MARCH 25, 1994.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BROOKS, from the Committee on the Judiciary,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 4018]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 4018) to revise habeas corpus proceedings, having considered
the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommend that the bill do pass.
SUMMARY AND PURPOSE
The Habeas Corpus Revision Act of 1994 (hereinafter referred to
as the Act) addresses the various problems that have arisen with
respect to the Federal courts' longstanding jurisdiction to entertain
habeas corpus petitions from State prisoners, particularly prisoners
under sentence of death.
The Committee believes that habeas corpus reform legislation is
needed because the credibility of the criminal justice system has
been tested by unnecessary delays, a seeming lack of finality of
State criminal proceedings, and serious deficiencies in the provision
of competent counsel to indigent defendants in death penalty cases.
The goal is to reform current procedures and practices in order to
streamline Federal litigation by ensuring that habeas corpus peti-
tioners have one fair opportunity to present their Federal claims to
the Federal courts, fostering Federal adjudication of the merits,
avoiding wasteful litigation over arcane procedural issues, and
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