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Skinner update

By cdw

SCOTUSBlog notes: Title: Skinner v. Switzer Docket: 09-9000 Issue: Whether a convicted prisoner seeking access to biological evidence for DNA testing may assert that claim in a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, or whether such a claim may be asserted only in a petition for writ of habeas corpus. Opinion below (5th Circuit) Petition for certiorari Brief in opposition Petitioner?s reply Counsel for petitioner are  Rob Owen (Owen & Roundtree), as well as Skadden Aarps’ attorneys Douglas G Robinson & Maria Cruz Melendez.

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on May 24, 2010 (boomark / email).