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 Whether a reasonable jurist could debate the district court's dismissal of a 'gateway innocence' claim based on new exculpatory evidence and scientifi…
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 Whether the Sixth Circuit erroneously deferred to the state court's credibility findings on a gateway innocence claim
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 Whether it violates due process to require a petitioner pursuing a gateway-innocence claim to prove with 'affirmative evidence' that a particular theo…