A legal petition requesting that a judge examine whether an individual is being properly detained in jail, prison, or mental hospitals is called a(n):

a. writ of certiorari.
b. writ of probable cause.
c. ex post facto.
d. habeas corpus.
e. bill of attainder.


d

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