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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

RANDY LYNN STAMBAUGH, 

Petitioner-Appellant, 

FI LED 

Uoiced Scice-s Courc of Appeals 

Tenth Ci::uit 

DEC 21 1990 

&OBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

No. 89-8043 

v. 

DUANE SHILLINGER and 

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF 

THE STATE OF WYOMING, 

Respondents-Appellees. 

(D.C. Misc. No. 89-003K) 

( D. Wyo.) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before MOORE, SETH and ANDERSON, 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. 

Randy Lynn Stambaugh is currently an inmate at the Wyoming 

State Penitentiary. He appeals from the district court's 

dismissal of his petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 

*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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u.s.c. S 2254. The district court also denied the issuance of a 

certificate of probable cause and denied Stambaugh's motion to 

proceed in forma pauperis. We dismiss the appeal. 

The procedural history underlying this appeal is as follows. 

Randy Lynn Stambaugh was tried and convicted of two counts of 

aggravated assault, two counts of sexual assault, and one count of 

procuring. On appeal to the Wyoming Supreme Court, Stambaugh 

alleged various trial court errors, unrelated to this appeal. The 

Wyoming Supreme Court affirmed the trial court on all grounds. 

Stambaugh v. State, 613 P.2d 1237 (Wyo.). Stambaugh filed a 

habeas corpus petition with the United States District Court 

alleging ineffective assistance of counsel and lack of evidence. 

His petition was dismissed for failure to exhaust state remedies. 

He then filed the petition with the Fourth Judicial District Court 

of Wyoming and with the Wyoming Supreme Court. These petitions 

were dismissed and denied, respectively. 

Stambaugh's second petition to the Fourth Judicial District 

Court of Wyoming alleged the same constitutional errors that are 

before us today. When the court denied his petition, Stambaugh 

did not appeal to the Wyoming Supreme Court. Instead, he brought 

his appeal before the United States District Court. In his 

petition, he alleged that his conviction was obtained in violation 

of his rights to due process and equal protection under the 

United States Constitution. Specifically, he contended that he 

was denied the right to confrontation because Wyoming statutory 

law requires that a specific test be administered to assault 

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victims; a test was performed on the alleged victim and discarded 

by the sheriff; and reference to the existence of this discarded 

test was admitted in court. From the record it appears that 

Officer Robinson asked a nurse to administer the test. The test 

was performed but later discarded because it was administered too 

long after the assault had occurred to reveal anything. At trial 

Stambaugh did not object to the admission of this testimony, nor 

did he raise this issue on direct appeal. As a result, the 

district court dismissed Stambaugh's petition for failure to 

exhaust available state remedies and for failure to raise these 

evidentiary issues with the trial court. Stambaugh appeals this 

dismissal. 

Upon consideration of the petition and record, we must 

conclude that the district court's dismissal of Stambaugh's 

petition was appropriate. 

Before a federal court may consider a petition for writ of 

habeas corpus, all available state remedies must be exhausted. 

Rose v. Lundy, 455 U.S. 509. We agree with the district court's 

finding that Stambaugh has failed to exhaust the available state 

remedies. In his petition, Stambaugh concedes that he did not 

appeal to the Wyoming Supreme Court. Because he has failed to 

exhaust state remedies, we have no jurisdiction to consider his 

appeal. 

Because this court has no jurisdiction to entertain this 

appeal, we deny the certificate of probable cause and the motion 

to proceed in forma pauperis. 

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DISMISSED. 

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Entered for the Court 

Oliver Seth 

Circuit Judge 

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