No. 19-7666

Donniel Woods v. Aaron Joyner, Warden

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-02-13
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 506 U.S. 390 113 S.Ct. 853 122 L.Ed.2d 203 holdin federal-habeas-relief herrera-v-collins independent-constitutional-violation newly-discovered-evidence state-criminal-proceeding actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus herrera-v-collins ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct state-criminal-proceeding
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2020-04-03
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Has the Supreme Court of the United States overruled Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S. 390 113 S.Ct. 853 122 L.Ed.2d 203

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Questions Presented Mr. Woods is actually innocent, and his conviction was cultivated by counsel who conspired with the state to conceal the Medical Records from Woods. Thus, Mr. Woods’ trial process was . fundamentally unfair. Ground One identifies that a fundamental miscarriage of justice occurred. Succinetly, an actually innocent person was found guilty because conflicted counsel facilitated a game of “hide and seek” with the Medical Records in collusion with the State Prosecutor. The District Court accepted the Magistrate Judge’s analysis that Woods cannot raise a standalone claim for actual innocence and that the evidence he deems “newly discovered,” is not new : because it was available at trial and at state PCR. The case thus presents the following question: : Has the Supreme Court of the United States overruled Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S. 390 113 S.Ct. 853 122 L.Ed.2d 203 holding that claims of actual innocence based on newly discovered evidence have never been held to state a ground for federal habeas relief absent an independent constitutional violation occurring in the underlying state criminal proceeding. . 1 .

Docket Entries

2020-04-06
Petition DENIED.
2020-03-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/3/2020.
2020-03-13
Waiver of right of respondent Aaron Joyner, Warden to respond filed.
2020-01-31
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 16, 2020)

Attorneys

Aaron Joyner, Warden
William Edgar Salter IIISouth Carolina Attorney General's Office, Respondent
Donniel Woods
Donniel Woods — Petitioner