SANTA FE - A federal appeals court has rejected the latest
appeal of a man convicted in the 1982 rape and murder of a
teenage girl near Carlsbad.  The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in Denver says Carl Case didn't meet the legal
requirements for challenging his conviction.  Several young men
were convicted in the killing of Nancy Mitchell. Her body was
found near a dam outside Carlsbad.  Case had claimed there was
new and previously undisclosed evidence regarding a trial
witness and that two prosecution witnesses had recanted their
trial testimony.  The ruling Tuesday says Case's due process
rights weren't violated and that he received a fundamentally
fair trial.  It also says the newly discovered evidence doesn't
require a new trial.  Case was sentenced to life in prison plus
18 years.