Herrera v. Collins, No. 91-7328 (U.S. Supreme Court) (506 U.S. 390; 113 S.Ct. 853) (January 25, 1993) (Justice Rehnquist)
Ten years after his conviction of capital murder, and quite some years after having exhausted his state and federal, direct and collateral appeals, the petitioner in this case, Leonel Torres Herrera, who was facing imminent execution in Texas, sought to reopen his case on the basis of belatedly-produced largely-hearsay affidavits. ...
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