153656P.pdf   02/16/2017  Gyronne Buckley  v.  Keith Ray
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-3656
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Pine Bluff   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Colloton and Melloy, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. The Attorney General's office defendants were 
   entitled to summary judgment on plaintiff's claim that their actions in 
   accessing and referencing his expunged criminal record for his 
   compensation proceedings before the Arkansas Claims Commissions violated 
   his substantive due process rights; the mere act of violating the 
   expungement statute did not amount to a brutal and inhumane abuse of 
   official power literally shocking to the conscience; plaintiff failed to 
   articulate any legally-cognizable liberty interest created by the Arkansas 
   expungement statute, and defendants were entitled to qualified immunity on 
   his procedural due process claim; with respect to plaintiff's claim that a 
   misstatement of the record by the Attorney General during his testimony 
   before the legislative subcommittee considering the claim constituted 
   defamation, the Attorney General was entitled to absolute legislative 
   immunity; plaintiff's Section 1983 claims arising out of his wrongful 
   conviction accrued on the date the trial court invalidated his conviction, 
   and this action was brought more than three years after that date and the 
   claims were, therefore, time barred.