Reuters: U.S.: Supreme Court to hear challenge to conviction reversal

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Supreme Court to hear challenge to conviction reversal Oct 29th 2012, 14:14 WASHINGTON | Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:14am EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider whether a state prisoner who claims he is innocent but waits several years to press his case is excused from the usual deadline to seek relief in federal courts. Michigan was challenging the reversal of the 1997 conviction of Floyd Perkins for stabbing a man after a Flint, Michigan, house party four years earlier. Perkins obtained affidavits in 1997, 1999 and 2002 that he said supported his innocence, but waited until June 2008 to ask a federal judge to overturn his conviction, nearly six years after the last affidavit was signed.

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