Coleman v. Hardy

How courts have described this case

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• applying presumption of correctness to state court factual findings when federal court is considering actual innocence argument
• reviewing for abuse of discretion the decision of a district court to deny the petitioner’s request for an evidentiary hearing to establish facts to overcome procedural default
• procedural default may be avoided if a petitioner can demonstrate cause and prejudice, or a fundamental miscarriage of justice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).