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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
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u ited States Co~rt (?f Appeafo UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS n Tenth C1rcu1t 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

BOBBIE L. SIMS, JR., 

Petitioner-Appellant, 

v. 

RICHARD R. THORNBURGH, 

J. MICHAEL QUINLAN, GARY L. HENMAN, 

ROBERT P. CASEY, 

Respondents-Appellees. 

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ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

OCT 3 0 1991 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

Nos. 91-3026, 

91-3122, & 91-3175 

(D.C. No. 91-3002-R) 

(D. Kansas) 

Before LOGAN, MOORE, and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges. 

Petitioner Bobbie Sims, Jr., was convicted of violation of 

the criminal laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and was 

subsequently transferred to the United States Penitentiary, 

Leavenworth, Kansas, to serve his sentence. The district court 

denied his Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, filed pursuant to 

28 u.s.c. § 2241. Sims v. Thornburgh, No. 90-3002-R, 1991 WL 

30954 (D. Kan. Feb. 28, 1991). Petitioner appeals pursuant to 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

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1 28 u.s.c. S 2253. 

In response to Petitioner's Notice of Appeal, the district 

court found that the appeal was frivolous and not taken in good 

faith. Based on this finding, the court denied Petitioner leave 

to proceed in forma pauperis on appeal. Dist. Ct. R. doc. 22. 

Petitioner's motion before this court for in forma pauperis status 

is hereby granted. Case No. 91-3026, an interlocutory appeal, and 

Case No. 91-3175, an appeal of denial of Petitioner's Motion to 

Reconsider and post-judgment Motion to Amend, are dismissed for 

mootness because of the court's disposition of Petitioner's appeal 

on the merits herein. 

Each of the claims based on the Compact Clause that 

Petitioner raises on appeal has been considered and was found to 

be lacking in merit in Stevenson v. Thornburgh, 943 F.2d 1241 

(10th Cir. 1991). 2 We hold that none of the issues Petitioner has 

raised before this court are "debatable among jurists of reason." 

Barefoot v. Estelle, 463 U.S. 880, 893 n.4 (1983). Petitioner's 

request for certificate of probable cause to appeal denial of his 

1 After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 

34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. The case is therefore ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

2 Petitioner submitted post-judgement motions to reconsider and 

to amend, and related motions to compel responses to Petitioner's 

demands of access to the Pennsylvania regulations concerning penal 

transfer procedures. Stevenson's disposition of claims that the 

petitioner therein was improperly transferred disposes of 

Petitioner's post-judgment claims herein. 

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Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus is DENIED. This appeal is 

DISMISSED. The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

Entered for the Court 

Per Curiam 

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