Cornelious Perry v. Ruth L. Rushen

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that the third-party culpability evidence in Chambers 3 23-2213 was “highly exculpatory,” and “if believed, would necessarily exonerate the defendant of the primary offense.”
• discounting the probative value of evidence that someone other than the defendant also had the opportunity to commit a sexual assault in Golden Gate Park
• explaining that the holding in 23 Chambers turned on “unusually compelling circumstances”
• rejecting a habeas challenge relying on significantly more probative evidence than Griffey’s proffered evidence
• “Evidence of little importance, whether merely cumulative or of little probative value, will almost never outweigh the state interest in efficient 15 judicial process.”
• “Evidence of little importance, whether merely cumulative or of little probative value, will almost never outweigh the state interest in efficient judicial process.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).