Dobbert v. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections

How later courts describe this case

• a "frenzied rush to execution ... has become a common, if Kafkaesque, feature of the Court’s capital cases”
• “Recantation testimony is properly viewed with great suspicion. It. . . is very often unreliable and given for suspect motives. ...”
• “Recantation testimony is properly viewed with great suspicion. It ... is very often unreliable ..., and most often serves merely to impeach cumulative evidence rather than to undermine confidence in the accuracy of the conviction.”
• "Recantation testimony is properly viewed with great suspicion.”
• “[R]ecantations are viewed with extreme suspicion by the courts.”