State v. Pierre’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions

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1. “Although this Court declined to hold that such claims are, in fact, cognizable in collateral attacks on final convictions, a question also left Lopen in federal habeas proceedings by the United States Supreme Court in Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S. 390, 417 , 113 S.Ct. 853, 869 , 122 L.Ed.2d 203 (1993), we observed that such claims must necessarily involve “new, material, noncumulative and conclusive’evidence which meets an extraordinarily high standard, and which undermine[s] the prosecution’s entire case.” [State v.] Conway, 01-2808 [p.] at 1, (2001- 2808 La. 4 /12/02), 816 So.2d [290] at 291,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State ex rel. Williams v. State

2. “C.C. testified that she did not reveal the abuse at the hands of Percle either before or during [Pierre's] trial, because she was afraid that if she did so, she would be removed from the home and deprived of her 'nanny,' as in fact happened after [she came forward]. C.C. testified that she decided to come forward when her nieces, ages three and six, began visiting the Percle home and she became afraid that what had happened to her would happen to them.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pierre v. Vannoy

3. “The passage of time, and not prosecutor Rhodes, thus dictated that [Pierre] cast his lot with the extraordinarily high [actual-innocence] standard as a basis for overturning his conviction and sentence in state post-conviction proceedings.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Pierre v. Vannoy