Thornley v. Mullen

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the doctrine of res judicata applied when the direct appeal and postconviction relief issues were “substantially identical”
• stating that res judicata bars the applicant from relit-igating in postconviction relief an issue that the Court already had determined on direct appeal
• upholding relief from waiver when the law changed after defendant’s trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).