United States Fourth Circuit

A criminal defendant who seeks access to biological evidence contending it could effectively invalidate a final state conviction, whose lawfulness has not been impugned substantively, fails to state a claim under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/23/2002
• Published 01/23/2002

Judges

• Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, and NIEMEYER and KING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Jack L. Gould, Fairfax, Virginia, for Defendant-Appellant.  Peter J. Neufeld, The Innocence Project, New York, New York, for Plaintiff-Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Barry C. Scheck, The Innocence Project, New York, New York;  Lisa B. Kemler, Zwerling & Kemler, P.C., Alexandria, Virginia, for plaintiff-Appellee.  John D. Cline, Freedman, Boyd, Daniels, Hollander, Goldberg & Cline, P.A., Albuquerque, New Mexico, for Amici Curiae.