Reeves v. Nooth

*713This case involves an untimely, successive petition for post-conviction relief in which petitioner alleges that he is "actually innocent" of most, but not all, of the offenses to which he pleaded guilty nearly 30 years ago. It requires us to consider whether a post-conviction petitioner's claim of "actual innocence" can provide both a viable "freestanding" ground for post-conviction relief, as well as a basis for disregarding otherwise applicable legislative limitations on the availability of post-conviction relief and, if so, whether petitioner's allegations and the attached evidence in…