Adams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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15 state decisions

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1. “Adams further contends that counsel’s argument about the existence of a favorable witness and the witness affidavits attached to his PCR establish his actual innocence and except the claims in his PCR from the time bar. A post-conviction relief petitioner’s contention that his actual innocence excepted his claim from the procedural bar was rejected in Howard v. State, 945 So.2d 326, 369 (¶95) (Miss.2006). In Howard the petitioner relied upon federal case law concerning the actual innocence exception to the procedural bar in successive, abusive, or defaulted habeas claims. Id. The supreme court held that, even if federal habeas case law on actual innocence applied to Howard’s PCR, Howard had failed to prove his actual innocence. Id. Similarly in this case, even if the federal standard applied, Adams has failed to meet the requirement of a demonstration that, in light of all the evidence, it is more likely than not that no reasonable juror would have convicted him. Trotter v. State, 907 So.2d 397, 401 (¶ 12) (Miss.Ct.App.2005) (quoting Bousley v. U[nit-ed] S[tates], 523 U.S. 614, 623 , 118 S.Ct. 1604 , 140 L.Ed.2d 828 (1998)).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 85 So. 3d 298 - Sneed v. State