220 Md. App. 1 - State v. Seward’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
June 2021
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Pennsylvania v. Finley · Harrington v. Richter · McNeill v. United States · Harrington v. Richter
Most-quoted passages
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“[a] person ... may ... file a petition for writ of actual innocence ... if the person claims that there is newly discovered evidence that: (1) creates a substantial or significant possibility that the result may have been different[.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he legislative materials suggest that the actual innocence statute was conceived, by its proponents, as a means to extend the relief afforded under the DNA postconviction statute to those for whom DNA evidence was unavailable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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