Winnett v. State

Summary

The court dismissed Winnett’s appeal from the denial of his Act 1780 habeas petition because he did not identify or support any new scientific evidence of actual innocence and did not satisfy the statute’s pleading requirements for testing. The court also held that the petition was untimely because it was filed more than five years after conviction and offered no basis to rebut the statutory presumption against timeliness. His motions to submit a nonconforming brief and for sentence reduction were therefore moot.