Schlup v. Delo
Schlup v. Delo | |
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Argued October 3, 1994 Decided January 23, 1995 | |
Full case name | Lloyd Schlup, Petitioner v. Paul K. Delo, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center |
Citations | 513 U.S. 298 (more) 115 S. Ct. 851; 130 L. Ed. 2d 808; 1995 U.S. LEXIS 701 |
Case history | |
Prior | 11 F.3d 738 (8th Cir. 1993); cert. granted, 511 U.S. 1003 (1994). |
Holding | |
A condemned man can bypass the procedural bar on successive federal habeas corpus petitions if he shows that "a constitutional violation has probably resulted in the conviction of one who is actually innocent". | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Stevens, joined by O'Connor, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer |
Concurrence | O'Connor |
Dissent | Rehnquist, joined by Kennedy, Thomas |
Dissent | Scalia, joined by Thomas |
Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298 (1995), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court expanded the ability to reopen a case in light of new evidence of innocence.[1]
Petitioner Lloyd E. Schlup, Jr., a Missouri prisoner under a sentence of death for the 1984 murder of an inmate named Arthur Dade, filed a habeas corpus petition alleging that constitutional error deprived the jury of critical evidence that would have established his innocence. The Court granted certiorari to consider whether the [2] standard provides adequate protection against the kind of miscarriage of justice that would result from the execution of a person who is actually innocent.
Opinion of the Court[]
The Court held[1] that the standard of ,[3] which requires a habeas petitioner to show that "a constitutional violation has probably resulted in the conviction of one who is actually innocent," id., at 496—rather than the more stringent Sawyer standard, governs the miscarriage of justice inquiry when a petitioner who has been sentenced to death raises a claim of actual innocence to avoid a procedural bar to the consideration of the merits of his constitutional claims.
Subsequent Developments[]
In 1996, Schlup was granted a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that his original trial attorney failed to adequately represent him. In 1999, on the second day of his re-trial, Schlup agreed to plead guilty to second degree murder which allowed him to avoid the death penalty.[4]
See also[]
- List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 513
- List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Rehnquist Court
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