Robert Williams, Jr. v. Massachusetts
HabeasCorpus
Whether the cause of death affected the jury's judgment in a capital murder case
QUESTION(S) PRESENTED — an ; ; Whether, in order to prove actual innocence, the cause of death, ina capitol murder case, had an affect . : on the judgment of the jury, and where Defendant Robert a , . Williams, Jr. has tiow 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 . ofa 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 : o received and reviewed by United States District Court Judge, a Allison D. Burroughs, who has confirmed that the victim oe . , did not suffer a stab wound to the skull and brain, see Attachment C, page 4, footnote 2. . a