We focus in on two Latin words this week: habeas and mandamus. Both usually mean "you lose." But things somehow turned out differently in the Fourth Circuit and Fifth Circuit. Hear the story of a man trapped in prison for a small drug sale for almost a decade who fights his way through the state and federal courts and wins himself a new trial. IJ's Bob Belden tells that tale. And then there's a story about guns, the Internet, speech, the differences between Texas and New Jersey, and transfer orders. Alexa Gervasi gets us up to speed on that saga. She also previews a new IJ case about a prosecutor working for a judge he practiced before. It's as bad as it sounds.

Wilson v. Midland County (IJ's prosecutor case), https://ij.org/case/midland-prosecutor/

Witherspoon v. Stonebreaker, https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/197276.P.pdf

Defense Distributed v. Bruck, http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/21/21-50327-CV0.pdf

Bob Belden, https://ij.org/staff/bob-belden/

Alexa Gervasi, https://ij.org/staff/alexa-gervasi/

Anthony Sanders, https://ij.org/staff/asanders/