A challenge to the defendant’s incarceration based on the principle that there must be a legal ground to hold the prisoner and often used as an additional appellate procedure is

a. respondeat superior.
b. voir dire.
c. mandamus.
d. habeas corpus.


d. habeas corpus.

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