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Parties Involved:
Martin Duane Fisher
Appellant
Frank Gunter
Appellee
Duane L. Woodard
Appellee

Document Text:

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UNITED STATES COURT OF 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

FI r APPEALSUnit.ed S 1 . . 

MARTIN DUANE FISHER, ) 

) 

Petitioner-Appellant, ) 

) 

v. ) 

) 

FRANK GUNTER and DUANE L. WOODARD, ) 

Attorney General of the State of ) 

Colorado, ) 

) 

Respondents-Appellees. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

T,mt.h P.i,·<''"t 

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vr,;v .l. 4 1991 

ROBERT L. Hon,... .. ,._ Clerk 1 -- - - · 

No. 90-1184 

(D.C. Civ. No. 90-M-700) 

(D. Colorado) 

Before LOGAN, SEYMOUR, and TACHA, Circuit Judges. 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not material ly 

assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 

34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. The case is therefore ordered s ub -

mitted without oral argument. 

Petitioner Martin Duane Fisher, a state court prisoner, 

sought release from custody by a petition for writ of habeas 

corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. He argued that he had served h i s 

term of imprisonment of four years and one day because o f a 

* 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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combination of presentence confinement and days spent in prison, 

adjusted by good time and earned time to which he claims 

entitlement. The state parole board denied release and a state 

court denied relief in a proceeding he brought pursuant to Colo. 

R. Crim. P. 35(c). The magistrate made a recommendation in which 

he analyzed all of petitioner's contentions. The district court, 

upon de novo review, adopted the recommendation and ordered the 

petition dismissed for failure to state a claim for relief 

entitling petitioner to the writ. We affirm for substantially the 

reasons stated in the magistrate's recommendation filed May 31, 

1990. 1 

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AFFIRMED. 

The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

Entered for the Court 

James K. Logan 

Circuit Judge 

Petitioner contends Renneke v. Kautzky, 782 P.2d 343 (Colo. 

1989), relied on by the magistrate, is moot in light of new 

Colorado legislation providing for vesting of earned time credit. 

Colo. Rev. Stat.§§ 17-22.5-402(2) to 405(3) (1990). However, the 

new provisions do not apply to inmates incarcerated on or before 

July 1, 1990. § 17-22.5-406(b). Petitioner was incarcerated 

before 1990. 

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