RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A federal appeals court has refused to reconsider a Virginia death row inmate's bid for a new trial.

In a 2-1 decision, a panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to ask the full court to review Darrick Walker's case. The Richmond man was convicted of killing Stanley Beale in 1996 and Clarence Elwood Threat in 1997. Virginia law allows the death penalty for anyone who commits two premeditated murders within three years.

Judge Roger Gregory was the dissenter in Tuesday's decision. He said the prosecution failed to disclose police reports casting doubt on the credibility of the eyewitness testimony of Beale's 13-year-old daughter. Gregory said the jury should have been allowed to hear that evidence.

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