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Carriger v. Stewart, No. 95-99025 (9th Cir.) (95 F.3d 755) (September 24, 1996) (Judge Alex Kozinski)

Loaded on Oct. 1, 1996 published in Punch and Jurists October 14, 1996
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Actual Innocence/Claim of Innocence.

The Court did, however, back off slightly by stating that the Supreme Court has made clear that "for such a claim to ever be successful, the defendant's burden of proof would 'necessarily be extraordinarily high'." (Id., at 957).

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