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Thepetition of the day is:

16-213

Issue:Whether it is fundamentally unfair and violates the due process clause of the 14th Amendment to require a capital habeas petitioner to bring a successive state habeas petition within six months of the discovery of previously unproduced evidence pursuant to Alabama Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.2(c), when Alabama Code 6-5-440 would have simultaneously barred such a suit.

Cases: Kuenzel v. Alabama

Recommended Citation: Kate Howard, Petition of the day, SCOTUSblog (Sep. 29, 2016, 12:00 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/09/petition-of-the-day-1000/