Payne v. Bell

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that petitioner “need not show that the additional discovery would definitively lead to relief” to satisfy the good cause standard
• holding a petitioner “need not show that the additional discovery would definitively lead to relief” but “need only show good cause that the evidence sought would lead to relevant evidence regarding his petition”
• stating that this view is not unanimously held by all federal courts
• granting discovery motion in support of a presumptively defaulted claim because the motion sought to discover evidence which would allow the petitioner to obtain a factual basis to excuse default, his “actual innocence”
• granting discovery motion in support of a presumptively defaulted claim because the motion sought to discover evidence which would allow the petitioner to obtain a factual basis to excuse default, his “actual innocence”
• granting discovery motion in support of a presumptively defaulted claim because the motion sought to discover evidence which would allow the petitioner to obtain a factual basis to excuse default, his “actual innocence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).