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

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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

MAR 21 1990 

RO.BERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk EDWARD LYLE HALL, ) 

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Petitioner, ) 

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MIKE PARSONS, Warden, James Crabtree ) 

Correctional Center, Helena, Oklahoma, and) 

ROBERT H. HENRY, Attorney General of the ) 

State of Oklahoma, ) 

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Respondents. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

No. 89-7015 

(D.C. No. 88-262-C) 

(E.D. Okla.) 

Before*fACHA and BRORBY, Circuit Judges, and VAN BEBBER, District 

Judge. 

This appeal is from an order of the district court denying 

petitioner's petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner 

Hall appeals on the grounds that the district court erred in 

refusing to vacate his conviction because Hall was denied a court 

appointed psychological expert twelve years ago at his trial on 

charges relating to the murder of a guard at the Oklahoma State 

Penitentiary in McAllister, Oklahoma. Petitioner further argues 

that his conviction for second degree non-felony murder violated 

due process because the evidence did not support the conviction on 

* 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. 

** The Honorable G. Thomas Van Bebber, District Judge, United 

States District Court for the District of Kansas, sitting by 

designation. 

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that ground. Finally, petitioner argues that the district court 

erred in refusing to reverse the conviction because the jury in 

the state trial was not instructed on a lesser included offense. 

Petitioner Hall was originally convicted in this matter in 

the state courts of Oklahoma. That conviction was affirmed by the 

Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals and is reported at Hall~ 

State, 698 P.2d 33 (Okla. Crim. App. 1985). The issues raised by 

petitioner on this appeal were fully considered during the 

original trial and appeal of this case. We agree with the 

district court that petitioner was not deprived of any 

constitutional rights when he was denied a defense psychiatrist. 

The record clearly reflects that petitioner made no showing that 

his sanity would be a significant factor at trial as required by 

the Supreme Cou.rt in Ake~ Oklahoma, 470 U.S. 68 (1985). 

Petitioner at no time during the trial attempted to assert an 

insanity defense or in any other way put his sanity into issue at 

the trial stage. 

The evidence in this case amply supports the conviction. We 

note further that this court has repeatedly held that jury 

instructions given in a state criminal trial will not present a 

federal constitutional question cognizable in federal court on a 

petition for writ of habeas corpus. We agree with all those 

courts who have reviewed this matter before us that petitioner was 

not deprived of any constitutional rights. We deny the writ and 

AFFIRM. 

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ENTERED FOR THE COURT 

Deanell Reece Tacha 

Circuit Judge 

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