GISSENDANER v. COMM'R, GA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. 15-10797 Non-Argument Calendar.

779 F.3d 1275 (2015)

Kelly Renee GISSENDANER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COMMISSIONER, GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, Other Unknown Employees and Agents, Georgia Department of Corrections, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

March 2, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald Wesley King, Jr. , Federal Defender Program, Inc., Susan C. Casey , Michael Kennedy McIntyre & Associates, Atlanta, GA, Lindsay Bennett , Federal Defender Program, Inc., Sacramento, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Sabrina Graham , Beth Attaway Burton , Mitchell Philip Watkins , Georgia Department of Law, Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before ED CARNES, Chief Judge, TJOFLAT and JORDAN, Circuit Judges.


Kelly Gissendaner masterminded the brutal murder of her husband, Douglas, by her paramour, Gregory Owen. See Gissendaner v. State, 272 Ga. 704, 532 S.E.2d 677, 681-83 (2000). Facing impending execution by lethal injection, Gissendaner has filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983...

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