Confirms that recanting co-offender evidence will be scrutinised with great circumspection, particularly where the recantation is unsupported by credible explanation and contradicted by video-recorded confessions; practitioners advising clients on guilty pleas should ensure all potentially exculpatory factual matters (including alibi-type evidence) are investigated and raised before plea, as post-conviction reliance on such matters will face a very high threshold.
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