Ex Parte David Leonard Wood
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals remanded to the trial court capital defendant’s second subsequent habeas petition to develop his claims, including actual innocence. A concurrence opined that the state constitution’s distinctive protections against erroneous deprivations of life support an independent standard for actual innocence habeas claims involving capital sentences.
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