Malaika Tamu Griffin (born May 11, 1971) is an American woman serving a life sentence at the DWCF in Denver, Colorado for shooting her neighbor Jason Patrick Horsley to death in May 1999.

[2] In 1999, she moved to Denver, Colorado, where she was working in a pharmacy and was renting a room in a house next door to a white couple: Jason Patrick Horsley and his girlfriend Deborah Loiselle.

Horsley was a carpenter, and Griffin became angry when he laid his tools on the sidewalk in front of her house after work.

[3] After this argument, Griffin returned to her apartment and came out with a 9mm handgun with a laser sight and shot Horsley point blank in the back, killing him instantly.

[1] Inside Griffin's apartment, police found a 9 mm carbine, ammunition, hand grenades and several how-to books on terrorism and bombmaking, including The Anarchist Cookbook and The Poor Man's James Bond.

[8] Under Colorado law, a first-degree murder conviction results in an automatic sentence of life in prison without parole.

She argued that her convictions should be overturned because her trial attorney was not licensed to practice law in Colorado, her notebook entries, self-defense instructions, and prosecutorial misconduct.