Maurice Coleman v. Michael Lemke

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• in assessing an actual innocence gateway argument, deferring under § 2254(e)(1) to the state post- conviction trial court’s factual findings concerning a witness’s credibility
• “The actual innocence standard is a demanding one that permits review only in the extraordinary case.”
• a codefendant’s testimony can be found to not be credible if he presents conflicting accounts of what occurred
• The alibi witness’ “relationship to [the defendant] suggests she had a motive to give evidence in [the defendant’s] favor.”
• in assessing an actual innocence gateway argument, deferring under § 2254(e)(1) to the state post-conviction trial court’s factual findings concerning a witness’s credibility
• simply adding testimony from two eyewitnesses that the petitioner was not at the scene of the shooting did not demonstrate actual innocence when other evidence connected the petitioner to the crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).