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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 United States Court of Appeal~ Tenth Circuit 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

FEB 18 1993 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

ROBERT B. DAVIS, 

Petitioner-Appellant, 

v. 

FRANK GUNTER, Executive Director, 

Colorado Department of Corrections; 

GALE A. NORTON, Attorney General, 

of the State of Colorado, 

Respondents-Appellees. 

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ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Clerk . 

No. 91-1440 

(D.C. No. 90-Z-1361) 

(D. Colo.) 

Before TACHA and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges, and BROWN,** Senior 

District Judge. 

**Honorable Wesley E. Brown, Senior District Judge, United States 

District Court for the District of Kansas, sitting by designation. 

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. 

submitted without oral argument. 

The case is therefore ordered 

* 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. 

Appellate Case: 91-1440 Document: 010110175764 Date Filed: 02/18/1993 Page: 1 
Petitioner appeals from the district court's denial of his 28 

U.S.C. § 2254 petition challenging a Colorado conviction for 

conspiracy to commit first degree murder. Five grounds were 

asserted in support of the petition: (1 ) ineffective assistance 

of trial counsel; (2) ineffective assistance of appellate counsel; 

(3) denial of the right to confront adverse witnesses, resulting 

from admission of hearsay statements regarding the deceased 

victim's fear of a co-defendant; (4) denial of the right to 

confront adverse witnesses, resulting from admission of hearsay 

statements of a nontestifying co-defendant; and (5) denial of due 

process through the state's negligent withholding of material, 

exculpatory evidence . App. at 15-16. The district court 

dismissed the petition based on the thorough and thoughtful 

recommendation submitted by the magistrate judge. 

Our review of the legal issues raised in this proceeding is 

plenary, though we defer to the underlying factual findings of the 

district court unless they are clearly erroneous. See United 

States v. Miller, 907 F.2d 994, 996 (10th Cir. 1990) . Adhering to 

these standards, we have considered the various arguments asserted 

by petitioner on appeal and find them to be without merit. The 

magistrate judge and district court carefully analyzed the issues 

presented and arrived at the correct result . We therefore affirm 

the denial of the petition for substantially the reasons expressed 

in the magistrate judge's recommendation. 

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Appellate Case: 91-1440 Document: 010110175764 Date Filed: 02/18/1993 Page: 2 
The judgment of the United States District Court for the 

District of Colorado is AFFIRMED. 

Entered for the Court 

Deanell Reece Tacha 

Circuit Judge 

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