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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 

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JAKE UNDERWOOD, 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

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Plaintiff-Appellant, ) 

PILED 

Uciced Statff Cou,c ~f Appeals 

Tenth Circuit 

AUG ,. 3 1990 

I.OBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

) No. 90-5081 

v. ) (D.C. No. 90-C-0169-C) 

) (N. D. Oklahoma) 

RON CHAMPION, Warden, ) 

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Defendant-Appellee. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before MCKAY, MOORE, and BRORBY, Circuit Judges. 

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 cause is therefore ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

This is a prose appeal by a state prisoner from the denial 

of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner contends 

*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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his sentence violated state law, which he attempts to extrapolate 

to the level of a federally recognizable claim by the conclusory 

assertion of several constitutional rights. We have examined the 

record and the arguments and conclude the trial court correctly 

held that the issues raised, petitioner's denomination to the 

contrary notwithstanding, are matters of state law. Federal 

courts do not have the jurisdiction to right the wrongs asserted 

by the petitioner. 

AFFIRMED. 

Entered for the Court 

John P. Moore 

Circuit Judge 

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