McClinton v. State
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The Supreme Court denied Petitioner's second petition requesting permission to proceed in the trial court with a petition for writ of error coram nobis, holding that Petitioner's proposed attack on the judgment had no merit.
Petitioner was convicted of raping a mentally handicapped sixteen-year-old girl and was sentenced to life imprisonment. In his first petition for writ of error coram nobis Petitioner alleged a number of errors in the trial procedure. The first petition was denied. In his second coram nobis petition, Petitioner alleged violations of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963). The Supreme Court denied the writ, holding that Petitioner failed to meet his burden of demonstrating a fundamental error of fact extrinsic to the record.
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