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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 Sttne8 Court of Appeals 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS Tenth Circuit 

JESSEE. COCHRAN, 

Petitioner-Appellant, 

v. 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

JACK COWLEY, Warden; and ATTORNEY 

GENERAL, State of Oklahoma, 

Respondents-Appellees. 

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SEP 5 1990 

&OBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

) No. 90-6007 

) (D.C. No. CIV-89-1836-A) 

) (W.D. Okla.) 

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ORDER AND JUDGMENT * 

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. 

Jesse Cochran appeals from the district court's order denying 

his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Cochran contends that 

the district court erred in finding no violation of either 

Oklahoma law or equal protection in the Oklahoma Court of Criminal 

Appeals' refusal to modify his sentence. The district court 

denied Cochran's request for permission to proceed in forma 

* 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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pauperis and a certificate of probable cause. We dismiss the 

appeal. 

We recently addressed this same contention in Murray Y..!.. 

Cowley, No. 89-6436 (10th Cir. Sept. 5, 1990). Murray held that 

there is no equal protection violation in treating sentences 

rendered under old Okla. Stat. Ann. tit. 21, § 701.4 differently 

from sentences rendered under new Okla. Stat. Ann. tit. 21, 

§ 701.9. We find that Murray controls this case. The district 

court did not err in denying the petition for a writ of habeas 

corpus. 

Because we find that Cochran has not demonstrated that the 

issues raised are debatable among jurists, Barefoot Y..!.. Estelle, 

463 U.S. 880 (1983), 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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