Legal Opinion
Melvin Leroy Tyler v. James Purkett, Superintendent at FCC Al Luebbers Jeremiah (Jay) W. Nixon Dave Dormire
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 5, 2005No. 03-3995PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
Melvin Leroy Tyler appeals from the district court’s 1 decision finding that no testable physical evidence in his case currently exists and that the evidence was lost under negligent or otherwise inadvertent circumstances. We affirm.
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In 1977, Tyler was convicted of one count each of robbery in the first degree, rape, kidnaping, and armed criminal action for a December 27, 1976, attack on a housewife in Columbia, Missouri. After denying a motion for new trial, the state court judge presiding at Tyler’s trial sentenced him to a total of 185 years’ imprisonment. Tyler…
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