Cunningham v. Premo

This appeal concerns the denial of petitioner’s third petition for post-conviction relief. Petitioner was sentenced to death in 1992 following his conviction on two counts each of first-degree rape and aggravated murder, and one count of intentional murder, for the rape and killing of a young woman. Although he confessed to the killing, petitioner has always maintained that he and the victim had consensual sex and that he did not rape her. After filing two unsuccessful petitions for post-conviction relief, as well as a petition for federal habeas corpus relief, petitioner alleged in his third…