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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
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FILED 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit 

OCT 15 1991 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

WESLEY M. SOUTHERN, ) 

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Plaintiff-Appellant, ) 

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V • ) 

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STEPHEN KAISER; ATTORNEY GENERAL, ) 

State of Oklahoma, ) 

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Defendants-Appellees. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

No. 91-6036 

(D.C. No. CIV-90-1622-W) 

(W.D. Oklahoma) 

Before LOGAN, MOORE and BALDOCK, 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 case is therefore ordered submitted without oral argument. 

Petitioner Wesley M. Southern appeals the district court's 

denial of the petition for a writ of habeas corpus he filed 

pursuant to 28 u.s.c. § 2254. Nearly all of petitioner's 

contentions on appeal are set out and disposed of in the 

* 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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memorandum opinion of the district court. We are in agreement 

with the district court's disposition of each of these issues and 

affirm for substantially the reasons stated in its memorandum 

opinion of December 13, 1990. 

Only one additional point needs to be mentioned. In a 

supplemental brief petitioner argues that he was misinformed as to 

the minimum term he could receive under Oklahoma's second degree 

murder statute, 21 Okla. Stat. Ann.§ 51. He argues that the 

minimum term thereunder is ten years instead of the twenty he was 

told by the court when it took his guilty plea. Defendant's 

contention is in error. Under 21 Okla. Stat. Ann.§ 51B every 

person who previously has been convicted twice of felony offenses 

must be given a term of imprisonment of not less than twenty 

years. Petitioner had four felony convictions, and even giving 

effect to petitioner's plea agreement dropping two former 

convictions from consideration, he was subject to the twenty year 

minimum term. 

AFFIRMED. 

The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

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Entered for the Court 

James K. Logan 

Circuit Judge 

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