Holmes v. Hardy

How courts have described this case

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

• preferring “to allow the district court to decide the constitutional issues in the first instance”
• “troubling” new evidence impugning the credibility of state’s witness did not establish actual innocence, since at best it established a “mere possibility” that a jury presented with the evidence would have exonerated the petitioner, “not a probability, as is required.”
• “A federal court will not review a question of federal law decided by a state court if the decision of the state court clearly and expressly relied on the petitioner’s failure to meet a state procedural requirement as an independent basis for its disposition of the case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).