Legal Opinion
David Gavitt v. Bruce Born
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 1, 2016No. 15-2136/2434PublishedCited by 392 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
McKEAGUE, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff in the action from which these two appeals arise, David Gavitt, was sentenced to life in prison in 1986 after a jury found him guilty of arson and felony murder, charges stemming from a house fire that took the lives of his wife and two daughters. In June 2012, the state court granted Gavitt’s unopposed motion for relief from judgment based on newly discovered evidence. The newly discovered evidence is in the nature of advancements in fire science research and investigation methods that tend to impugn some of the evidence on which Gavitt’s convictions…
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