Jeffrey Landrigan v. Ernest Trujillo

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that test results excluding the inmate as a contributor of any of the DNA on the victim’s jeans, blanket, and 12 curtain “do not show that [the inmate] was not, at a minimum, a major participant in [the victim’s] death”
• requiring “a sufficient showing of possible merit to warrant a fuller exploration by the district court”
• “In these circumstances a serious question exists whether the factual predicate for the claim — results of DNA testing [on trial evidence] — could not have been discovered earlier.”
• “In these circumstances a serious question exists whether the factual predicate for the claim—results of DNA testing [on trial evidence]—could not have been discovered earlier.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).