Dunlap v. Idaho
Annotate this CaseIn 2006, Timothy Dunlap was sentenced to death by a Caribou County, Idaho jury for the death of a Soda Springs bank teller killed in 1991. In 2008, Dunlap filed a petition for post-conviction relief, alleging that numerous errors had occurred at his 2006 sentencing hearing. The district court dismissed the petition in its entirety. Dunlap appealed to the Supreme Court, which affirmed the dismissal of all but two of Dunlap’s claims: (1) multiple claims of prosecutorial misconduct under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) and Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264 (1959); and (2) ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984). Upon remand, the district court held two evidentiary hearings, one involving each of Dunlap’s remaining claims. The district court found that Dunlap had failed to establish either claim and denied Dunlap’s request for post-conviction relief. Dunlap timely appealed. Finding no reversible error in these decisions, the Idaho Supreme Court affirmed the district court.
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