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Parties Involved:
United States of America
Appellee
Elward Roe Wanoskia
Appellant

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellee, 

FILED 

United S~!rcs Co,~rr '?f Appeals ! (~~,t,; ~>~·-··,~· 

JAN 2 3 1990 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

v. 

No. 89-2151 

(D.C. No. 89-0134) 

(D. New· Mexico) 

ELWARD ROE WANOSKIA, 

Defendant-Appellant. 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Submitted on the Briefs: 

Before LOGAN, MOORE, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges. 

Appellant seeks reversal of the dismissal of his 28 u.s.c. 

§ 2255 petition. Following a direct appeal, Mr. Wanoskia filed a 

petition asserting his conviction of second degree murder should 

be vacated because the trial court did not give a requested 

instruction on voluntary manslaughter . Although that issue could 

*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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have been raised in the direct appeal, it was not presented. Mr. 

Wanoskia cannot collaterally attack his conviction on a ground 

that could have been asserted on direct appeal, and his§ 2255 

motion was properly denied. United States v. Khan, 835 F.2d 749 

(10th Cir. 1987), cert. denied, 108 S. Ct. 2881 (1988). 

The mandate shall issue forthwith~ 

AFFIRMED. 

Entered for the Court 

John P. Moore 

Circuit Judge 

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