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Commonwealth v. Conway

Citations

  • 14 A.3d 101
  • 2011 Pa. Super. 7
  • 2011 Pa. Super. LEXIS 7
  • 2011 WL 80248

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • explaining that the one-year time bar of Section 9545 does not apply to a motion filed under Section 9543.1
  • referring to a reviewing court’s “probabilistic determination about what reasonable, properly instructed jurors would do” in the face of the new evidence
  • characterizing DNA evidence as constituting “direct evidence” of the identity of an assailant
  • “[T]he statutory language requires reviewing courts to evaluate the ‘actual innocence of the offense’ component by ‘assuming exculpatory results’ will be obtained from the proposed testing.”
  • explaining the ‘data bank’ theory

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Judges: Donohue, McEWEN, Ott

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