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 B. Taney was survived by five daughters. His wife, Anne Key (whose brother, Francis Scott Key, wrote The Star-Spangled Banner), and daughter Alice had died in 1855 of Yellow Fever. A son, Augustus, died at infancy in 1815.