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RICHARDS (WILLIAM) ON H.C.

Petitioner’s Opening Brief on the Merits

17 Cited authorities

  1. In re Hardy

    41 Cal.4th 977 (Cal. 2007)   Cited 244 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Rejecting actual innocence claim where "the allegations ... fail to undermine the prosecution's entire case against [Hardy] or point unerringly to his innocence or reduced culpability"

  2. Ege v. Yukins

    485 F.3d 364 (6th Cir. 2007)   Cited 214 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Finding due-process violation from admission of bitemark testimony identifying petitioner that was highly prejudicial given that no other evidence placed the petitioner at the scene of the murder

  3. In re Malone

    12 Cal.4th 935 (Cal. 1996)   Cited 147 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding a juror's insertion of personal technical knowledge of polygraph testing is misconduct

  4. In re Lindley

    29 Cal.2d 709 (Cal. 1947)   Cited 530 times
    Setting forth procedural bar on state habeas review specifically for sufficiency of the evidence claims

  5. In re Sodersten

    146 Cal.App.4th 1163 (Cal. Ct. App. 2007)   Cited 88 times
    Holding court has discretion to apply exception to mootness rule when habeas petitioner dies during pendency of proceeding

  6. In re Hall

    30 Cal.3d 408 (Cal. 1981)   Cited 138 times
    Granting relief where the trial witnesses later recanted their prior eyewitness identification of petitioner as the gunman

  7. In re Lawley

    42 Cal.4th 1231 (Cal. 2008)   Cited 63 times
    Observing " ‘[t]he central reason for referring a habeas corpus claim for an evidentiary hearing is to obtain credibility determinations’ "

  8. In re Roberts

    29 Cal.4th 726 (Cal. 2003)   Cited 69 times
    Holding where petitioner "failed to show that the prosecution knowingly presented false evidence," petitioner did not establish violation of due process

  9. People v. Collins

    68 Cal.2d 319 (Cal. 1968)   Cited 160 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that testimony of mathematics instructor on mathematical theory of probability, without adequate evidentiary foundation or adequate proof of statistical independence, constituted prejudicial error in a robbery conviction

  10. State v. Krone

    182 Ariz. 319 (Ariz. 1995)   Cited 58 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that as sanction for State's failure to disclose videotape prepared by its expert until day before trial, trial court should have either granted continuance or precluded tape when first asked to do so; telling defendant to examine tape between start of trial and day it was shown was not adequate to cure harm