GEE, Circuit Judge:
The district court dismissed Otis Lee Fairley's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 petition as barred by the statute of limitations. He appeals and we affirm.
In September 1982, a Mississippi state court convicted the appellant of murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment. He was sent immediately to the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. He sought and received an order from Justice Robertson of the Mississippi Supreme Court in May 1983...
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