United States Eleventh Circuit

Dismissal of civil rights action brought by death sentenced inmate, seeking post-habeas access to biological evidence presented at his capital murder trial for DNA testing, is affirmed over claims that: 1) Brady v. Maryland requires the State to turn over exculpatory evidence; and 2) Mathews v. Eldridge, 424 U.S. 319, 335 (1976), requires procedural due process protections under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/18/2006
• Published 08/18/2006

Judges

• HULL, Circuit Judge:, Before ANDERSON, BIRCH and HULL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David Boies, Christopher M. Green, Ian Dumain, Brian Kohn, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Armonk, NY, Peter Neufeld, Vanessa Potkin, Innocence Project, Benjamin N. Cardozo Sch. of Law, New York City, for Grayson.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kevin Christopher Newsom, Montgomery, AL, for Respondents-Appellees.