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

TENTH CIRCUIT 

FILED 

Unit.ed States Court of Appeals 

Tenth circuit 

JUL O 21991 

ALFONSO ALBERT LOPEZ, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, 

ROBERT L, HOECKER 

> Clerk 

v. 

MICHAEL PARSONS; ATTORNEY 

GENERAL OF OKLAHOMA, 

Defendants-Appellees. 

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) No. 90-6339 

) (D.C. No. CIV-90-1023-T) 

) (W. Dist. Okla.) 

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ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before McKAY, SEYMOUR, and EBEL, Circuit Judges. 

Alfonso Lopez, a prose prisoner, brought this petition under 

28 u.s.c. § 2254 (1988) challenging his state court conviction for 

first degree murder following a guilty plea. Lopez presented 

three grounds for relief in the district court: the State's 

failure to hold a competency hearing prior to his guilty plea; the 

alleged inadequacy of his counsel; and the denial of access to 

transcripts necessary to prepare his pleading. The district court 

determined that the issues of Lopez' competency procedures and the 

adequacy of his counsel were successive, having been previously 

raised and decided, and that relitigation of these claims was 

barred because Lopez had failed to make a factual showing of 

*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, 

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colorable innocence which the district court believed was required 

by Kuhlmann v. Wilson, 477 U.S. 436, 454 (1986) (plurality 

opinion). The court also refused to consider the claim based on 

lack of transcripts, concluding that this issue, which had not 

been raised in Lopez' prior federal habeas proceeding, constituted 

an abuse of the writ. The court denied Lopez a certificate of 

probable cause and his motion for leave to appeal in forma 

pauperis. 

On appeal, Lopez raises only the district court's refusal to 

consi "d er h" is successive · c l aims. · l We grant Lopez' request to 

proceed in forma pauperis and his application for a certificate of 

probable cause. We have carefully reviewed the record and Lopez's 

contentions, and we affirm substantially for the reasons given by 

the district court. See McClesky v. Zant, 111 S. Ct. 1454, 1471 

(1991) (adopting Kuhlmann plurality limitation of "ends of 

justice" exception to showing of factual innocence). 

Entered for the Court 

Stephanie K. Seymour 

Circuit Judge 

res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 36.3. 

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 cause is therefore ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

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