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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
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FILED ,. Uni1al States Co~r:uft Ap;,eam 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS Tenth Ctr 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT SEP 12 1991 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

HIRAM R. JOHNSTON, JR., 

Petitioner-Appellant, 

v. 

RICHARD R. THORNBURGH, 

J. MICHAEL QUINLAN, GARY L. 

HENMAN, ROBERT P. CASEY, 

Respondents-Appellees. 

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) Nos. 90-3330 & 

) 91-3126 

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) (D.C. No. 90-3464-R) 

) (D. Kansas) 

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ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before LOGAN, MOORE, and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges. 

Petitioner Hiram R. Johnston, Jr., was convicted of violation 

of the criminal laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and was 

subsequently transferred to the United States Penitentiary, 

Leavenworth, Kansas (USPL), to serve his sentence. The district 

court denied his petition for habeas corpus, filed pursuant to 

28 U.S.C. § 2241. Johnston v. Thornburgh, No. 90-3464-R, 1991 WL 

49649 (unpubl.)(D. Kan. Mar. 14, 1991). Petitioner appeals 

* 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 estoppal. 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

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pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253. 1 

In response to petitioner's notice of appeal, the district 

court found that the appeal was frivolous and not taken in good 

faith. Based on this finding, the court denied petitioner leave 

to proceed in forma pauperis on appeal. Dist. Ct. R. doc. 33. 

Petitioner's motion before this court for in forma pauperis status 

is hereby granted. Case No. 90-3330, an interlocutory appeal, is 

dismissed for mootness because of the court's disposition of 

petitioner's appeal on the merits herein. 

Each of the claims based on the compact clause that 

petitioner raises on appeal has been considered and was found to 

be lacking in merit in Stevenson v. Thornburgh, __ F.2d __ , 1991 

WL 164630 (10th Cir. Aug. 29, 1991). 2 We hold that none of the 

issues petitioner has raised before this court is "debatable among 

jurists of reason." Barefoot v. Estelle, 463 U.S. 880, 893 n.4 

(1983). Petitioner's request for certificate of probable cause to 

1 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. 

2 In addition to all the compact clause claims raised in the 

Stevenson case, in a separate "Motion for TRO and/or PI," Dist. 

Ct. R. doc. 28, petitioner claimed that his right of access to the 

courts was compromised by changes in USPL's administration of the 

prison's law library facilities. Petitioner alleged that these 

changes "obstruct[ed petitioner's] ability to render adequate 

MUTUAL ASSISTANCE to other prisoners [as a self-described 

'jailhouse lawyer']." Id. at 1. In its order denying habeas 

corpus relief and dismissing the petition, Dist. Ct. R. doc. 29, 

the court also denied this motion on the grounds that such 

complaint "must be brought on behalf of the person whose right [of 

access to the courts] has been affected, not on behalf of the 

party attempting to provide legal assistance to that person." Id. 

at 7. The district court's analysis of this motion was correct. 

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appeal denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus is DENIED. 

This appeal is DISMISSED. The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

Entered for the Court 

Per Curiam 

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