Price v. Food Lion, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing lack of consensus among federal courts as to whether a freestanding actual innocence claim would be cognizable in a federal habeas proceeding and concluding that such claims should be cognizable
• “It is reasonable to infer that experienced trial counsel chose to allocate resources to pursue more promising defenses rather than one with a low probability of success.”
• “It is reasonable to infer that experienced trial counsel chose to allocate resources to pursue more promising defenses rather than one with a low probability of success.”
• “Despite its reluctance to recognize innocence as a ground for habeas relief, the Court nonetheless hinted that a successful innocence claim would, ‘at the least . . . require[ ] more convincing proof of innocence than’ what is required on a gateway claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).