Petition of the day
By Kate Howard
on Sep 29, 2016
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.
Posted in Cases in the Pipeline
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/