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Turner v. Commonwealth
No. 101457Supreme Court of Virginia
101457 Turner v. Commonwealth 09/16/2011 In a petition for a writ of actual innocence based on newly-discovered non-biological evidence, "recantation" testimony offered by another individual who was complicit …
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101457 Turner v. Commonwealth 09/16/2011 In a petition for a writ of actual innocence based on newly-discovered non-biological ev…
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101457 Turner v. Commonwealth 09/16/2011 In a petition for a writ of actual innocence based on newly-discovered non-biological evidence, "recantation" testimony offered by another individual who was complicit in and prosecuted for the same homicide focused upon whether he restrained and choked the victim. Nothing in that testimony is material to the issue of whether a rational trier of fact could find petitioner guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of abduction of the victim with intent to defile involving deception, as the predicate for petitioner's conviction under the felony murder statute. Thus petitioner has not met his statutory burden of proof for the issuance of a writ of actual innocen…
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