Woods v. Schwartz

How courts have described this case

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• finding that affidavits from the petitioner’s family members years after the murder were not enough to rebut the presumption of guilt
• recognizing waiver as an independent and adequate state law ground barring a federal ineffective assistance claim
• looking to appellate briefs to determine the basis of the state appellate court’s summary ruling
• relying on the grounds cited by appellate counsel in her motion to withdraw where the Illinois Appellate Court summarily affirmed the denial of post-conviction relief
• rejecting claim of actual innocence based on alibi affidavits of family members that were prepared years after the murder and noted “with incredible particularity the most pedestrian details of that night,” even though “the night was like any other”
• rejecting claim of actual innocence based on alibi affi- davits of family members that were prepared years after the murder and noted “with incredible particularity the most pe- destrian details of that night,” even though “the night was like any other”

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