Johnathan Christopher Montgomery v. Commonwealth of Virginia

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• concluding that a victim’s recantation was true, in part because “there [were] no facts suggesting that her unprompted recantation was in any way pressured, coerced, or is otherwise unreliable”
• granting writ of actual innocence where the petitioner established that his conviction resulted from perjury committed by the complaining witness, thereby establishing that the record lacked evidence of his guilt

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