Carriger v. Stewart, No. 95-99025 (9th Cir.) (132 F.3d 463) (December 17, 1997) (Judge Mary M. Schroeder)
Loaded on Feb. 1, 1998
published in Punch and Jurists
February 09, 1998
Filed under:
Punch And Jurists,
Actual Innocence/Claim of Innocence.
Here the Court held that the defendant was not entitled to habeas relief on a freestanding claim of actual innocence since that rquires an "extraordinarily high" threshhold of evidence.
This is another one of those perpetual appeals in a capital case of a murder conviction that was obtained
in 1978 …
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