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

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PI LED 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

United Statqs Coun of Appeals 

'fcnth Circuit 

AUG 2 3 1990 

lilOBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

DALTON LOYD WILLIAMS, 

Petitioner-Appellant, 

v. 

H.B. JOHNSON, and ATTORNEY 

GENERAL FOR THE STATE OF TEXAS, 

Respondents-Appellees. 

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Nos. 90-1062 

90-1063 

90-1064 

90-1065 

(D.C. Nos. 89-B-1301, 

89-B-1302, 89-B-1303, 

and 89-B-1347) 

(D. Colorado) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT * 

Before LOGAN, SEYMOUR, and TACHA, Circuit Judges. 

This matter is before the court on appellant's application 

for a certificate of probable cause. 

All of these petitions for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 

U.S.C. § 2254 seek to require the Colorado state courts to give 

appellant credit for time served in Texas on appellant's 

conviction for murder and other crimes committed in Texas while he 

was an escapee from a Colorado state prison. The district court 

denied relief on grounds that appellant had failed to present his 

claim to the Colorado Court of Appeals, and hence had failed to 

* 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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exhaust state remedies. Appellant asserts that he exhausted 

remedies in Texas, and unsuccessfully pursued a writ of mandamus 

in the Supreme Court of Colorado. 

Because he challenges action of a Colorado state court, 

appellant's suits in Texas have only tangential relevance, if any; 

his quarrel, properly focused, is with the Colorado officials and 

should be pursued through the Colorado state court system. The 

record reveals that either appellant's claim on this issue is 

pending before the Colorado Court of Appeals, or that it has not 

been properly presented to a Colorado state appellate court. 

Hence, the district court was entirely correct in dismissing the 

petition for failure to exhaust state remedies. 

We have reviewed the files and records and conclude that 

appellant has failed to make a substantial showing of the denial 

of a federal right necessary for the issuance of a certificate of 

probable cause under 28 u.s.c. § 2253. See Barefoot v. Estelle, 

463 U.S. 880 (1983). 

It is ordered as follows: 

1. Appellant's application for a certificate of probable 

cause is denied; 

2. The appeal is dismissed; and 

3. The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

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Entered for the Court 

James K. Logan 

Circuit Judge 

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