Robert Williams, Jr. v. Massachusetts
HabeasCorpus
Whether, in order to prove actual innocence, the cause of death, in a capitol murder case, had an affect on the judgment of the jury, and where Defendant Robert Williams, Jr. has now obtained newly discovered evidence in the form of an x-ray of the skull of the victim, that has been digitized and put on a thumb drive, and establishes the victim did not meet his untimely demise as the result of a stab wound to the skull and brain, as claimed by the state and allegedly corroborated by the death certificate, which was also false. The aforementioned x-ray has been received and reviewed by United States District Court Judge, Allison D. Burroughs, who has confirmed that the victim did not suffer a stab wound to the skull and brain, see Attachment C, page 4, footnote 2.
Whether the cause of death affected the jury's judgment in a capital murder case