Legal Opinion
Michael Rimmer v. Eric Holder, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 21, 2012No. 11-6286PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BOGGS, Circuit Judge.
In 1998, Appellant Michael Dale Rimmer was convicted and sentenced to death in Tennessee state court for the murder of Ricci Lynn Ellsworth. After his conviction, Rimmer learned that the federal government had conducted a joint investigation of Ellsworth’s murder with the Memphis Police Department and now alleges that this investigation produced exculpatory evidence to which he should have been privy. Based on these allegations, Rimmer instituted state post-conviction proceedings, and in the course of preparing for these proceedings, was able to obtain some, but…
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