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Parties Involved:
Attorney General
Appellee
Gary D. Maynard
Appellee
Carlton Ramond Owens
Appellant

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

CARLTON RAMOND OWENS, ) 

) 

Petitioner-Appellant, ) 

) 

FI LED 

Uairtd ~ Court of Appeals 

Tenth Cir~it 

rv:.~Y L1 1990 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

vs. ) 

) 

GARY D. MAYNARD, Warden of the ) 

Oklahoma State Penitentiary; and ) 

ROBERT H. HENRY, Attorney General ) 

for the State of Oklahoma, ) 

No. 89-7104 

(D.C. No. 88-457-C) 

(E.D. Okla.) 

) 

Respondents-Appellees. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

f d Be ore LOGAN, SEYMOUR an BALDOCK, Circuit . . d ** Ju ges. 

Petitioner, Carlton Owens, was incarcerated in the Oklahoma 

state prison system when he filed for a federal writ of habeas 

corpus under 28 U.S.C. S 2254 in August 1988. In his petition, 

Owens did not attack any criminal conviction or sentence he had 

incurred, but rather alleged he was being unlawfully deprived of 

* 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. 

** 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 cause therefore is ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

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statutory work credits under the pre-1976 version of 57 Okla. 

Stat. S 138 at a rate of two days credit for every six days 

worked. 

The district court denied the writ, as well as Owens' motion 

for a certificate of probable cause to appeal under 28 u.s.c. 

§ 2253 and for leave to proceed on appeal in forma pauperis under 

28 u.s.c. § 1915. Owens v. Maynard, No. 88-457-C, order (E.D. 

Okla. Feb. 10, 1989). Thereafter, a panel of this court 

consisting of Judges Moore, Anderson and Ebel likewise denied 

Owens a certificate of probable cause and leave to proceed on 

appeal in forma pauperis, and dismissed his appeal as meritless. 

Owens v. Maynard, No. 89-7024, order (10th Cir. May 30, 1989). 

Owens then returned to the district court and filed a motion to 

reconsider, presenting the same arguments contained in his 

original petition. The district court's denial of his motion to 

reconsider is the subject of this second appeal. 

Although Owens, proceeding prose, has not formally moved the 

court in this second appeal to grant him a certificate of probable 

cause or permission to proceed on appeal in forma pauperis, we 

believe a remand to the district court for initial consideration 

of such motions would be a waste of judicial resources because 

Owens' second appeal is moot. Owens' appeal is moot because he is 

no longer incarcerated in the Oklahoma state prison system. 

Instead, Owens now lists his address as 1101 Salem Avenue, Dayton, 

Ohio. Because he is no longer imprisoned by the State of 

Oklahoma, any grant of additional work credits under Oklahoma law 

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to speed his release would be meaningless. See Lane v. Williams, 

455 U.S. 624, 631 (1982) (habeas corpus petition urging the 

correction of a sentence already served declared moot). 

Accordingly, we decline to issue a certificate of probable 

cause under 28 u.s.c. § 2253, and dismiss the appeal as meritless 

under 28 U.S.C . § 1915(d). 

APPEAL DISMISSED. 

Entered for the Court 

Bobby R. Baldock 

Circuit Judge 

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