Court blocks pathway for federal prisoners to raise legal innocence claims
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 23, 2023
Fast forward to 1996: In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Congress passed AEDPA. United States that the government had to prove that the defendant knew he was an unlawful possessor of a firearm, an element not proven at Jones’s trial. This provision, known as the “saving clause,” preserved habeas for those prisoners.
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