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Ex Parte Franklin

Citations

  • 72 S.W.3d 671
  • 2002 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 78
  • 2002 WL 532421

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that when habeas applicant claims actual innocence, applicant bears \the burden of proving his innocence not just raising doubt about his guilt\
  • explaining that when habeas applicant claims actual innocence, applicant bears “the burden of proving his innocence not just raising doubt about his guilt”
  • deciding that actual innocence claims require evidence affirmatively proving innocence
  • ordering remand of article 11.07 habeas petition to consider under correct standard
  • “[O]ur holding in Elizondo was meant to act as a mechanism for freeing the innocent[.]”
  • “[O]ur holding in Elizondo was meant to act as a mechanism for freeing the innocent[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Cochran, Hervey, Holcomb, Johnson, Keasler, Keller, Meyers, Price, Womack

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