Clara Faatz v. John Ashcroft, Missouri Secretary of State

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• emphasizing that the post-conviction court could order a retrial only if the petitioner established “such a sub- stantial denial of constitutional rights that his conviction is rendered void” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that the trial court can use the rules of evidence to “partly amelio- rate the kind of prejudice that parties can sometimes suffer in a retrial years after the original trial”
• emphasizing that the post-conviction court could order a retrial only if the petitioner established “such a sub- stantial denial of constitutional rights that his conviction is rendered void” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• declining to decide whether to adopt that formulation of the former fugitive doctrine
• declining to decide whether to adopt that formulation of the former fugitive doctrine
• declining to address “[w]hether to adopt the former fugitive doctrine”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).