Court Opinion

ID: 9780239
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-30 01:39:12.091495+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:33:59.613482
License: Public Domain

ALTENBERND, Judge,
Concurring.
I fully concur in the court’s opinion. This is one of those postconviction cases in which the defendant happens by odd coincidence to find a very favorable witness, who just happens to be serving time in the same prison where he is serving his sentence. Athough the witness, Mr. Gay, did not come forward in 1998, he was willing to provide his testimony under oath in 2008.
Given that improbable events occur in our lives with some frequency, we cannot reject this claim as a matter of law. In the event that the trial court concludes *186after an evidentiary hearing that the improbability of these events is not generated by coincidence, but rather by perjury, the trial court will have options available to it that should be sufficient to address its concerns.