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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

HAROLD DEAN HORNSBY, 

 Petitioner - Appellant, 

v. 

MARTY SIRMONS, Warden, 

 Respondent - Appellee.

No. 07-5080

ORDER

Filed November 1, 2007

Before KELLY, BRISCOE, and O’BRIEN, Circuit Judges.

In the underlying 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas proceeding initiated in January

2007, Harold Hornsby appeals from the district court’s January 8, 2007 Order

denying his motions for evidentiary hearing and for enlargement of the record, the

March 30, 2007 Order denying his second motion for evidentiary hearing and his

motion for order directing respondent to show cause and to enlarge the record, and

the April 20, 2007 Order dismissing his third motion for evidentiary hearing and his

second motion for order directing respondent to show cause. 

Petitioner Hornsby also appeals from the district court’s April 12, 2007 Order

transferring his most recent unauthorized second or successive § 2254 petition to this

court pursuant to Coleman v. United States, 106 F.3d 339, 341 (10th Cir. 1997). The

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district court correctly found it lacked subject matter jurisdiction over Hornsby’s

unauthorized § 2254 petition. See Spitznas v. Boone, 464 F.3d 1213, 1215 (10th Cir.

2006) (“Before a petitioner may file a second or successive 28 U.S.C. § 2254

petition in the district court, he must successfully apply to this court for an order

authorizing the district court to consider the petition.”).

The district court orders appealed by Petitioner are not final appealable

decisions under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 or under any recognized exception to the final

judgment rule. 

This appeal is DISMISSED for lack of appellate jurisdiction. 

Entered for the Court,

Elisabeth A. Shumaker, Clerk

Kathleen T. Clifford

Attorney - Deputy Clerk

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