James Liebman, a professor of law at Columbia Law School, stated in 1996 that his study found that when habeas corpus petitions in death penalty cases were traced from conviction to completion of the case that there was "a 40 percent success rate in all capital cases from 1978 to 1995." Similarly, a study by Ronald Tabak in a law review article puts the success rate in habeas corpus cases involving death row inmates even higher, finding that between "1976 and 1991, approximately 47 percent of the habeas petitions filed by death row inmates were granted." The different numbers are largely definitional, rather than substantive. Freedam's statistics looks at the percentage of all death penalty cases reversed, while the others look only at cases not reversed prior to habeas corpus review.
According to Liebman, about what percentage of death penalty habeas corpus petitions were successful between 1978 and 1995?
40
James Liebman, a professor of law at Columbia Law School, stated in 1996 that his study found that when habeas corpus petitions in death penalty cases were traced from conviction to completion of the case that there was "a 40 percent success rate in all capital cases from 1978 to 1995." Similarly, a study by Ronald Tabak in a law review article puts the success rate in habeas corpus cases involving death row inmates even higher, finding that between "1976 and 1991, approximately 47 percent of the habeas petitions filed by death row inmates were granted." The different numbers are largely definitional, rather than substantive.
James Liebman, a professor of law at Columbia Law School, stated in nineteen ninety-six that his study found that when habeas corpus petitions in death penalty cases were traced from conviction to completion of the case that there was "a forty percent success rate in all capital cases from nineteen seventy-eight to nineteen ninety-five." Similarly, a study by Ronald Tabak in a law review article puts the success rate in habeas corpus cases involving death row inmates even higher, finding that between "nineteen seventy-six and nineteen ninety-one, approximately forty-seven percent of the habeas petitions filed by death row inmates were granted." The different numbers are largely definitional, rather than substantive.
According to Liebman, about what percentage of death penalty habeas corpus petitions were successful between nineteen seventy-eight and nineteen ninety-five?