Tenth Circuit· 5/21/2019

Farrar v. Raemisch

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924 F.3d 1126

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explaining that federal habeas relief cannot be based on false testimony unless the government “knowingly us[ed] [the] perjured or false testimony at trial”
reiterating that “actual innocence does not constitute a freestanding basis for 3 For consistency, the Court’s citations to the record refer to the CM/ECF pagination. federal habeas relief”
explaining that, while a claim of actual innocence can be used as a procedural “gateway” to overcome a procedural bar, “actual innocence does not constitute a freestanding basis for habeas relief”
stating the Supreme Court “has never recognized freestanding actual innocence claims as a basis for federal habeas relief”
accepting a party’s oral waiver of an argument even 2 This connection is required for asylum or withholding of removal. See 8 U.S.C. §§ 1101(a)(42)(A), 1231 (b)(3)(A
“We have thus held that actual inno- cence does not constitute a freestanding basis for habeas re- lief.”

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Judges: Bacharach, Baldock, Ebel

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