People v. Griffin

Summary

The court held that the same colorable-claim standard applies at the leave-to-file stage for actual-innocence claims in successive postconviction petitions, whether the conviction followed a trial or a guilty plea. Applying that standard, it held that Griffin's affidavits supported advancing his actual-innocence claim, but that his ineffective-assistance claim separately had to satisfy cause and prejudice. The court affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded for the appellate court to evaluate cause and prejudice; Chief Justice Theis dissented, but no separate opinion is included in the record for extraction.