Gordon K. Hirabayashi v. United States of America, Gordon K. Hirabayashi v. United States

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• stating that any judgement of misconduct has consequences for which one may be legally or professionally accountable
• recognizing a “presumption that collateral consequences flow from any criminal conviction”
• excusing a forty-year delay because petitioner sought to vacate his conviction under wartime measures on the basis of a previously suppressed government report
• reaching same conclusion where claim was based on newly discovered evidence that could not have been found earlier despite petitioner’s due diligence
• granting coram nobis petition based upon suppressed military report regarding Japanese exclusion orders during World War II
• adopting four factors as predicates for coram nobis relief, including that “valid reasons exist for not attacking the conviction earlier”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).