Thompson v. State (Majority)
Annotate this CaseIn 1998, Petitioner was found guilty of rape in a trial to the bench and sentenced as a habitual offender to 480 months' imprisonment. The court of appeals affirmed. Petitioner subsequently filed a petition with the Supreme Court to reinvest jurisdiction in the trial court to consider a petition for writ of error coram nobis. The Supreme Court denied the petition, holding (1) Petitioner's claims of trial error did not form a basis for granting the writ; (2) Petitioner's allegations of newly discovered evidence were not a basis for coram-nobis relief; (3) Petitioner failed to show that the prosecutor committed a violation of Brady v. Maryland; (4) Petitioner's remaining claims were not cognizable in coram-nobis proceedings; and (5) Petitioner did not exercise due diligence in bringing his claims almost fourteen years after he was convicted.
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