Writ granted; conviction and sentence reinstated. The district court could not and did not grant a motion for a new trial, since Conway did not file one and if he had he would have filed it untimely. La.C.Cr.P. art. 853. Properly viewing Conway's second filing at the district court as a supplement to his application for post-conviction relief, and assuming that a claim of "actual innocence" not based on DNA evidence...
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