Edmund Zagorski v. Tony Mays

COOK, Circuit Judge.

Edmund Zagorski, a Tennessee capital prisoner, appeals from the district court's denial of relief from judgment under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b), asserting that his impending execution, an intervening Supreme Court decision, and the merits of three procedurally defaulted constitutional claims mandate equitable relief. Giving due deference to the district court's discretion in balancing the equities, we AFFIRM.

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Like most capital cases, this case presents a tangled procedural history. In 1984, a Tennessee jury convicted Edmund Zagorski of two first-degree murders…