Legal Opinion
Darrell Grayson v. Troy King
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 18, 2006No. 05-15725PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HULL, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff Darrell Grayson, an Alabama prisoner sentenced to death in state court, appeals the dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action seeking post-habeas access to biological evidence presented at his capital murder trial so that he can subject the evidence to DNA testing. After review and oral argument, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
A. Offense Conduct
In June 1982, Grayson was convicted of the murder of an elderly widow, Mrs. Annie Laura Orr. The facts of the crime, as found by the state court judge who sentenced Grayson and recounted by this Court in Grayson’s previous federal…
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