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

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FI LED 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

United States Court of Appeals 

Tenth Circuit 

SEP 13 1990 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

CRAIG S. WILSON, ) 

Petitioner/Plaintiff-Appellant, 

v. 

) 

) 

) 

) 

) 

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF 

and WYANDOTTE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 

KANSAS;) 

) 

Respondents/Defendants-Appellees. 

) 

) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT * 

No. 90-3086 

(D.C. No. 90-3044-S) 

( D. Kan.) 

Before LOGAN, SEYMOUR, and TACHA, 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. 

Appellant Wilson, currently imprisoned for aggravated 

criminal sodomy, filed a petition in district court for habeas 

corpus and civil rights relief. Wilson claimed that: (1) none of 

the charges against him were supported by substantial evidence; 

(2) the state excluded blacks from the trial jury in a 

* 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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discriminatory manner; and (3) his trial counsel was ineffective. 

Wilson seeks "monetary damages, declaratory judgment, and 

prospective injunctive relief." The district court construed 

Wilson's pleadings as a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and 

dismissed the complaint for failure to exhaust state remedies. 

Wilson appeals, contending that the district court erred in 

finding that: (1) his claims for monetary relief should be 

dismissed; and (2) he had not made the showing to avoid dismissal 

for failure to exhaust. We affirm. 

We have reviewed Wilson's complaint. The only reference to 

civil damages for any violation of Wilson's constitutional rights 

occurs in the last line of his form brief, where Wilson requests 

"monetary damages, declaratory judgment, and prospective 

injunctive relief." The entire discussion preceding that request, 

however, is directed to purported errors in Wilson's trial and 

argument that his detention is illegal. We find that Wilson's 

complaint essentially seeks habeas relief from imprisonment due to 

alleged constitutional errors and we decline to find that a one 

line, proforma request for monetary relief changes that 

characterization. The district court did not err in holding that 

Wilson's complaint sought habeas relief. 

Upon review of the record, we are in agreement with the 

district court that Wilson has not exhausted his state remedies. 

We further agree with the district court that Wilson has not 

alleged such extraordinary facts as would justify this court 

assuming jurisdiction. 

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Accordingly, because we find that Wilson meets the 

requirements for proceeding in forma pauperis, we GRANT the motion 

to proceed in forma pauperis. We also find, however, that Wilson 

has not raised a substantial showing of the denial of an important 

federal right about which reasonable jurists would disagree, see 

Barefoot Y..=.. Estelle, 463 U.S. 880 (1983). Accordingly, we DENY 

the certificate of probable cause. APPEAL DISMISSED. The mandate 

shall issue forthwith. 

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ENTERED FOR THE COURT 

Deanell Reece Tacha 

Circuit Judge 

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