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).
A member of a confederacy. An accomplice in a plot. Macaulay He found some of his confederates in gaol. (psychology) An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher (also known as a stooge). Translations a member of a confederacy