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

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.FILED 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS United Stat.es Court cf Appeals Tenth cir<'•1it 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

CARL GENE HACKER, ) 

) 

Plaintiff-Appellant, ) 

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v. ) 

) 

JAMES L. SAFFLE, Warden; ROBERT H. ) 

HENRY, Attorney General of the ) 

State of Oklahoma, ) 

) 

Defendants-Appellees. ) 

;N l 7 1991 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

No. 91-6042 

(D.C. No. CIV-90-2037-P) 

( W. D. Okla. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before McKAY, SEYMOUR, and EBEL, Circuit Judges. 

The parties have agreed that this case may be submitted for 

decision on the briefs. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(f); 10th Cir. R. 

34.1.2. The case is therefore ordered submitted without oral 

argument. 

Carl G. Hacker, a prisoner in the custody of the Oklahoma 

Department of Corrections, appeals the dismissal by the United 

States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma of his 

prose petition for habeas corpus relief. See 28 u.s.c. § 2254 

* 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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(1988). He seeks a waiver of the exhaustion requirement for 

habeas corpus not only due to delay caused by the backlog in the 

appellate public defender's office, but also because of a delay 

incurred when the appellate court remanded the appeal to the trial 

court for an additional evidentiary hearing. Further delay was 

incurred in seeking relevant documentation from the Florida 

Department of Corrections. The state appellate court has now 

resumed jurisdiction. 

Although there are unique facts in this case, in view of the 

now nearly three-year delay since conviction and sentence without 

a determination of defendant's direct criminal appeal, we REVERSE 

and REMAND for reconsideration in light of Harris v. Champion, 

Nos. 90-5223, 90-5224 (10th Cir. filed June 17, 1991). 

The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

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Entered for the Court 

Monroe G. McKay 

Circuit Judge 

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