Shelton R. Thomas v. Bob Goldsmith

How courts have described this case

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

• showing of factual innocence is necessary to trigger manifest injustice relief
• applying harmless error review to claim defendant was denied right to be present
• “If the intermediate appellate court judgment rests on procedural default and the state Supreme Court denies review without explanation, the federal courts will consider the claim procedurally defaulted.”
• “[B]are allegations, 5 unsupplemented by evidence, do not tend to establish . . . actual innocence sufficiently for 6 the court to ignore [a procedural bar to merits review].”
• “[B]are allegations, unsupplemented by evidence, do 19 not tend to establish . . . actual innocence sufficiently for the court to ignore . . . [a 20 procedural] default.”
• a state should turn over exculpatory evidence relevant to a habeas corpus proceeding

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).