The writ of habeas corpus is an extraordinary remedy because it gives a court the power to release a prisoner after the prisoner has been processed through the criminal justice system, with all its procedural safeguards and appeals.
Noun. 1. Roger Brooke Taney-United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court; remembered for his ruling that slaves and their descendants have no rights as citizens (1777-1864).
Roger Sherman: Roger Sherman, American politician whose plan for representation of large and small states prevented a deadlock at the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787. After learning shoemaking, Sherman moved to Connecticut in 1743, joining a brother there two years after his father had died, and became