gateway-innocence

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5800 Sherman Brown v. Kevin McCoy, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim dna-evidence gateway-innocence habeas-corpus reasonable-doubt scientific-testimony In Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298 (1995), this Court recognized and endorsed a miscarriage of justice exception to the general principle that defaulted …
23-651 John Lowery v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-claims constitutional-review credibility-findings eyewitness-recantation gateway-innocence recantation sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-deference state-court-deference suppressed-evidence I. Whether the Sixth Circuit, after applying a blanket rule of deference, erroneously deferred to the state court's credibility findings when reviewin…
23-569 Rodney Reed v. Texas Texas 2023-11-28 Denied Relisted (11) affirmative-evidence due-process evidentiary-standard gateway-innocence habeas-corpus innocence-claim judicial-review reasonable-doubt schlup-standard schlup-v-delo In the twenty-five years since Rodney Reed was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, a "considerable body of evidence" has accumulated that he i…