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SKINNER v. SWITZER

No. 09-9000.

131 S.Ct. 1289 (2011)

562 U.S. 521

Henry W. SKINNER, Petitioner, v. Lynn SWITZER, District Attorney for the 31st Judicial District of Texas.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 7, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Owen, Austin, TX, appointed by this Court, for petitioner.

Gregory S. Coleman, Austin, TX, for respondent.

Robert C. Owen, Counsel of Record, Austin, TX, Douglas G. Robinson, Washington, D.C., Maria Cruz Melendez, New York, N.Y., for Petitioner.

Mark D. White, Sprouse Shrader Smith P.C., Amarillo, TX, Gregory S. Coleman, Counsel of Record, Edward C. Dawson, Richard B. Farrer, Yetter Coleman LLP, Austin, TX, for Respondent.

Justice GINSBURG delivered the opinion of the Court.

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. ___, ___, 129 S.Ct. 2308, 2318-19, 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...

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