Strawhacker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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51 state decisions

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1. “We acknowledge that Strawhacker's claim may not neatly fall within one of the four established categories. But these categories are not set in stone. We have expanded the coram-nobis remedy in the past. See Penn v. State , 282 Ark. 571 , 670 S.W.2d 426 (1984). We emphasized that expanding the grounds for the writ was necessary to ensure due process and to provide a state remedy where none exists: The growth of the writ is attributable, certainly, to a variety of causes. A great force in its development has been that growing concept, due process of law. The federal courts now show little hesitation in overturning state convictions if a state has no remedy or refuses to exercise it where a defendant has been denied due process of law. And where the federal decisions reflect a procedural gap in a state whereby a defendant denied due process of law is remediless without recourse to the federal courts, the courts of that state may utilize coram nobis to fill the void. Id. at 575 , 670 S.W.2d at 429 (citing John H. Haley, Comment, Coram Nobis and the Convicted Innocent , 9 Ark. L. Rev. 118 (1955)). These concerns are present here.”

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

2. “In simple terms, this writ is a legal procedure to fill a gap in the legal system-to provide relief that was not available at trial because a fact exists which was not known at that time and relief is not available on appeal because it is not in the record.”

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

3. “the prosecutor in your case(s) has advised the Department of Justice that Michael Malone's work was material to your conviction.”

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