Michael L. Johnson v. John Bett, Warden, Dale Basten v. Daniel Bertrand

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• recognizing that a claim of newly discovered evidence could be a ground for habeas relief if it “related to a constitutional violation independent of any claim of innocence.”
• “For claims based on newly discovered evidence to state a ground for federal habeas relief, they must relate to a constitutional violation independent of any claim of innocence.”
• “For claims based on newly discovered evidence to state a ground for federal habeas relief, they must relate to a constitutional violation independent of any claim of innocence.”
• “Even when presumptively unreliable hearsay is admitted as substantive evidence, there is no violation so long as the declarant testifies as a witness and is subject to cross-examination.”
• “For claims based on newly discovered evidence to state a ground for federal habeas relief, they must relate 2 But see Sistrunk v. Rozum, 674 F.3d 181, 187 (3d Cir. 2012

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