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WRIGHT v. WARDEN, RIVERBEND MAXIMUM SEC. INST.

No. 13-6573.

793 F.3d 670 (2015)

Charles Walton WRIGHT, Petitioner-Appellant, v. WARDEN, RIVERBEND MAXIMUM SECURITY INSTITUTION, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: July 15, 2015.

Rehearing En Banc Denied August 20, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Kelley J. Henry , Federal Public Defender's Office, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellant. Jennifer L. Smith , Office of the Tennessee Attorney General, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Kelley J. Henry , Federal Public Defender's Office, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellant. Jennifer L. Smith , Office of the Tennessee Attorney General, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellee.

Before: COLE, Chief Judge; ROGERS and McKEAGUE, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

Charles Walton Wright, a Tennessee death row inmate represented by counsel, appeals from a federal district court order denying his Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6) motion for relief from judgment. Wright argues that a change in law — the Supreme Court's decisions in Martinez v. Ryan, ___ U.S. ___,

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