· 12/9/2009
Ex Parte Chabot
Citations
- 300 S.W.3d 768
- 2009 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1736
- 2009 WL 4640556
How courts have described this case
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- holding that due process is violated when the State knowingly or unknowingly uses materially false testimony to obtain a conviction
- holding that the defendant’s due process rights were violated by state’s unknowing presentation of false testimony
- holding that post-conviction DNA evidence established that the prosecution’s primary witness had perjured himself
- agreeing with convicting court that conviction based on perjured testimony violated defendant’s due process rights, notwithstanding that State had no knowledge of perjured testimony at time of trial
- applicant must prove that use of false evidence caused him harm, Hunter Concurrence - 6 not just that it was considered at all
- \The applicant did not raise this due-process claim in his first application for habeas relief. Nor could he have brought the claim.\
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Judges: Womack, Meyers, Price, Johnson, Hervey, Holcomb, Cochran, Keller, Keasler
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