Legal Opinion
David Munchinski v. Harry Wilson
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 11, 2012No. 11-3416PublishedCited by 145 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
In 1986, David Munchinski was convicted of two counts of first-degree homicide and two counts of second-degree homicide arising out of a pair of murders that occurred in 1977 in Bear Rocks, Pennsylvania (the “Bear Rocks Murders” or the “murders”). In the years following his conviction, Munchinski discovered that prosecutors had withheld from his counsel almost a dozen articles of exculpatory evidence. After unsuccessfully petitioning for post-conviction relief several times in state and federal court, Munchinski filed a second or successive habeas petition pursuant…
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