Legal Opinion
Skinner v. Switzer
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 7, 2011No. 09-9000PublishedCited by 1,269 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
OPINION OF THE COURT
[562 U.S. 524]
2Opinion of the Court · GinsburgJustice Ginsburg
We granted review in this case to decide a question presented, but left unresolved, in District Attorney’s Office for Third Judicial Dist. v. Osborne, 557 U.S. 52, 65-67, 129 S. Ct. 2308, 174 L. Ed. 2d 38 (2009): May a convicted state prisoner seeking DNA testing of crime-scene evidence assert that claim in a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, or is such a claim cognizable in federal court only when asserted in a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254? The Courts of Appeals have returned diverse responses. Compare McKithen v.…
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