11.   The Carrier standard is intended to focus the inquiry on actual innocence.

12.   The threat to judicial resources, finality, and comity posed by claims of actual innocence is thus significantly less than that posed by claims relating only to sentencing.

13.   The trial judge in the Elizondo case also ruled that the recantation of previous testimony in a sexual assault conviction was grounds for a finding of actual innocence.

14.   Thus, the threat to judicial resources, finality, and comity posed by actual innocence claims is significantly less than that posed by sentencing claims.

15.   That suggests that actual innocence includes actual innocence of the death sentence.