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Parties Involved:
Darayle Deon Crutcher
Appellant
Justin Jones
Appellee

Document Text:

FILED

United States Court of Appeals

Tenth Circuit

March 7, 2008

Elisabeth A. Shumaker

Clerk of Court

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

DARAYLE DEON CRUTCHER, 

 Petitioner - Appellant, 

v. 

JUSTIN JONES, 

 Respondent - Appellee.

No. 08-5024

ORDER

Before LUCERO, GORSUCH, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.

This court lacks jurisdiction over this appeal because the order being

appealed is not final or otherwise immediately appealable. 

The petitioner appeals an order of the district court denying his motion to

amend his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition, in which he sought to add claims. The

district court has not ruled on the original petition. 

This court has jurisdiction to review only final decisions, 28 U.S.C. § 1291,

and specific types of interlocutory orders not applicable here. A final decision is

one that “‘ends the litigation on the merits and leaves nothing for the court to do

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but execute the judgment.’” Cunningham v. Hamilton County, 527 U.S. 198, 204

(1999) (quoting Van Cauwenberghe v. Biard, 486 U.S. 517, 521-22 (1988)). 

Because the original petition is still pending before the district court the

order being appealed is not final. Accordingly, this appeal is DISMISSED. 

Entered for the Court

ELISABETH A. SHUMAKER, Clerk

Ellen Rich Reiter

Deputy Clerk/Jurisdictional Attorney

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