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Parties Involved:
Nathaniel B. Appleby-El
Appellant
Gary L. Henman
Appellee
J. Michael Quinlan
Appellee
William Donald Schaefer
Appellee
Richard Thornburgh
Appellee

Document Text:

FIL · D 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

United Stat':'8 eoiit of Ap~ b 

'fenth CirC"Ui~ 

APR O 3 1992 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

NATHANIEL B. APPLEBY-EL, 

Petitioner-Appellant, 

v. 

RICHARD THORNBURGH, J. MICHAEL 

QUINLAN, GARY L. HENMAN, WILLIAM 

DONALD SCHAEFER, 

Respondents-Appellees. 

Clerk . " 

No. 91-3319 

(D.C. No. 91-3126-R) 

(D . Kansas) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before LOGAN, MOORE, and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges. 

Petitioner Nathaniel B. Appleby-El was convicted of violation 

of the criminal laws of the State of Maryland 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. § 3341. 

Appleby-El v. Thornburgh, No . 91-3126-R (D. Kan. Sept. 26, 1991). 

Petitioner appeals pursuant to 28 u.s.c. § 2253. 1 

* 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. 

1 After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

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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. 18. 

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

is hereby granted. 

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, 943 F.2d 1214 

{10th Cir. 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 appeal denial of his 

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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 the Compact Clause claims, petitioner 

questions whether his incarceration under the custody of the 

Federal Bureau of Prisons is in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 4002. 

("[T]he Attorney General may contract, for i! period not exceeding 

three years, with the proper authorities of any State. for 

the imprisonment, subsistence, care, and proper employment of such 

persons.") (emphasis added). Petitioner argues that because he has 

been in federal custody for more than five years, all time beyond 

what he alleges to be a three-year limit imposed by § 4002 

constitutes impermissible detention. 

Petitioner's interpretation of§ 4002 is incorrect. Section 

4002 permits the Federal Bureau of Prisons to contract with states 

for the custody of state prisoners and addresses the parameters of 

such contracts. There is no suggestion in the provision that it 

was intended to limit the period during which an individual 

prisoner transferred pursuant to a conforming contract may be 

incarcerated in federal prison pursuant to the contract. 

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petition for writ of habeas corpus is DENIED. 

DISMISSED. The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

This appeal is 

Entered for the Court 

Per Curiam 

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