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Parties Involved:
Attorney General
Appellee
Gordon Andrew Bunton
Appellant
Jack Cowley
Appellee

Document Text:

FILED 

U nftecl Stat.es Court cf Appeals 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS Tenth ch-<'11.it 

TENTH CIRCUIT . ;N 1 7 1991 

GORDON ANDREW BUNTON, 

Plaintiff - Appellant, 

v. 

JACK COWLEY, Warden; ATTORNEY 

GENERAL, State of Oklahoma, 

Defendants - Appellees. 

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ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

No. 90-6316 

(D.C. No. CIV-90-1526-T) 

(W.D. Okla.) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before McKAY, SEYMOUR, and EBEL, Circuit Judges. 

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 case is therefore ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

Gordon Bunton, a prisoner in the custody of the Oklahoma 

Department of Corrections, appeals the denial of his prose 

petition for a writ of habeas corpus. See 28 u.s.c. § 2254 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or sued 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 claims that he is imprisoned in violation of the Due 

Process Clause of the fourteenth amendment because the Oklahoma 

Appellate Public Defender has not yet filed a brief for his direct 

appeal despite petitioner perfecting an appeal more than two years 

ago. Petitioner seeks a waiver of the exhaustion requirement for 

habeas corpus relief due to the delay caused by the backlog in the 

appellate public defender's office. 

Due to the more than two-year delay since petitioner 

perfected his 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. 

Entered for the Court 

Monroe G. McKay 

Circuit Judge 

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