Where defendant had pleaded guilty to felony murder under the misapprehension that he was eligible for the death penalty, and he procedurally defaulted in state court by failing to raise his challenge to his sentence within five years, under N.J.R. 3:22-12, the District Court misconstrued the scope of the actual-innocence exception � the touchstone of the actual-innocence inquiry is innocence of the sentence actually imposed, not innocence of a sentence for which the petitioner was merely eligible.
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