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Highest Texas Court Rules Actual Innocence Trumps Guilty Plea

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA) has held that newly discovered,
unquestionable evidence of a prisoner's actual innocence may be raised on
state habeas corpus even though the prisoner pleaded guilty.
Wesley Ronald Tuley, a Texas state prisoner, filed a petition for a writ
of habeas corpus pursuant to ...

 

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