Townsend v. Sain
{'<entity_0>': 'Supreme Court of the United States', '<entity_1>': 'Townsend v. Sain'}
[['Townsend v. Sain', 'court', 'Supreme Court of the United States']]
<entity_1>, 372 U.S. 293 (1963), was a <entity_0> case wherein the Court expanded the circumstances in which federal courts should hold evidentiary hearings when presented with petitions for habeas corpus by state prisoners following denial of postconviction relief in state court.
['legal case', 'United States Supreme Court decision']