Legal Opinion
Cunningham v. District Attorney's Office for Escambia County
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 6, 2010No. 07-10808PublishedCited by 169 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
Dewayne S. Cunningham is an Alabama prisoner serving a life sentence after having been convicted in 1996 of rape in the first degree. A decade after he was convicted, eight years after his conviction became final at the end of the direct appeal process, and following more than half a dozen separate attacks on his conviction in state and federal court, Cunningham filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 lawsuit. This lawsuit, brought on Cunningham’s behalf by the Wisconsin Innocence Project, seeks an order requiring Alabama authorities to send certain evidence to a forensic laboratory of…
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