Kutzner v. Montgomery County, No. 02-20861 (5th Cir.) (303 F.3d 339) (August 7, 2002) (Per Curiam)
Here the Court held that a civil suit to compel state officials to release biological evidence for DNA testing was in effect a challenge to the validity of the defendant’s murder conviction and thus was properly dismissed as a successive habeas petition.
In this case the district court dismissed plaintiff ...
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