Gould v. Commissioner of Correction

I fully agree with and join the majority’s well reasoned opinion in which it concludes that the habeas court failed to apply the proper standard for assessing a claim of actual innocence under Miller Commissioner of Correction, 242 Conn. 745, 700 A.2d 1108 (1997). I further agree that this deficiency arises from the habeas court’s exclusive reliance on recantations of testimony from the criminal trials *572of the petitioners, George M. Gould and Ronald Taylor. For the reasons that the majority persuasively advances, in order to establish their actual innocence, the petitioners were required to…