The Appellate Rules Committee recommended repealing Rule 20 (Habeas Corpus Proceedings) because it was duplicative of Rule 19 (Extraordinary Relief). A person may petition an appellate court for extraordinary relief referred to in Rule 65B of the Utah Rules of Civil Procedure 65B.For a writ of habeas corpus, or petition for agency review). The petition must name the custodian as the respondent and state the facts concerning the applicant's custody and include the legal basis for the request. Postconviction, postappeal review in the guise of habeas corpus was a Twentieth. Century invention, always subject to legislative regulation. Secondly, you must present any and all claims to the State Court before bring them to a Federal Court (the exhaustion rule). The writ of habeas corpus has similarly been a foundational part of Utah's common law. Instead, the State claims that Utah courts were exercising a "common law" writ of habeas corpus that was "completely distinct from the core constitutional writ. It is true that ruleof the Utah Rules of Civil Procedure is the rule that generally governs the drafting, filing, and disposition of habeas corpus petitions.
