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· 7/10/2015

United States v. Bill Watson

Citations

  • 792 F.3d 1174
  • 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 11922
  • 2015 WL 4153859

How courts have described this case

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

  • proposed testing must be capable of showing a probability of guilt “so low that actual innocence would be the only sensible explanation”
  • even where defendant was identified by an eyewitness, “touch DNA could . . . be persuasive evidence” of defendant’s innocence where it might indicate that someone other than the defendant pulled the clothing off of rape victim

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Judges: O'Scannlain, Kleinfeld, Berzon

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