Opinion ID: 2570891
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 9

Heading: Denial of funds for expert witnesses.

Text: Row alleges that the judge presiding over her first post-conviction proceeding denied her request for funds to hire experts specializing in neurology and psychiatry to determine whether she suffered any organic brain damage associated with the brain atrophy reflected by the comparison of CT brain scans taken in late 1991 and early 1993. In her petition in this case, Row admits that this issue was presented in her first petition for post-conviction relief and that the Idaho Supreme Court held that the judge did not abuse his discretion because Row had failed to make an adequate showing for the need for such expert testimony. She contends that such a showing has been made in her second petition for post-conviction relief. The court below properly dismissed this claim because there was no showing that the facts Row now attempts to present were not known or could not reasonably have been known at the time she brought her first petition for post-conviction relief.