Legal Opinion
Herrera v. Collins
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 25, 1993No. 91-7328PublishedCited by 2,801 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
Petitioner Leonel Torres Herrera was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in January 1982. He unsuccessfully challenged the conviction on direct appeal and state collateral proceedings in the Texas state courts, and in a federal habeas petition. In February 1992 — 10 years after his conviction — he urged in a second federal habeas petition that he was “actually innocent” of the murder for which he was sentenced to death, and that the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment and the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of due process of law therefore forbid…
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