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Parties Involved:
Attorney General of Kansas
Appellee
Derrick Dennis Lane
Appellant
Wyandotte County Courthouse
Appellee

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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS.. ·tec1 States~~ Appeal~ 7.Jnt 'J'{?'!').th C,!'M.J\t 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

DERRICK DENNIS LANE, ) 

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Plaintiff-Appellant, ) 

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v. ) 

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STATE OF KANSAS; TOM DAILY, ) 

Chief of Police, Kansas City, ) 

Kansas Police Department; NICK) 

TOMASIC, District Attorney's ) 

Office, 29th Judicial District) 

Courthouse, Kansas, ) 

) 

Defendants-Appellees. ) 

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DERRICK DENNIS LANE, ) 

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Petitioner-Appellant, ) 

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V. ) 

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WYANDOTTE COUNTY COURTHOUSE; ) 

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF KANSAS, ) 

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Respondents-Appellees. ) 

APR o 8 1993 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

No. 92-3396 

(D.C. No. 92-3355-DES) 

(D. Kan.) 

No. 92-3397 

(D.C. No. 92-3369-S) 

(D. Kan.) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before TACHA, BALDOCK, and KELLY, Circuit Judges. 

After e xamining 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 . 

* 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 t h e law of 

the case , res judicata, or collateral estoppel . 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

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

submitted without oral argument. 

Derrick Dennis Lane appeals from two orders of the United 

States District Court for the District of Kansas. In Case No. 92 -

3396 , Lane appeals the dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil 

rights complaint against various Wyandotte County and Kansas City, 

Kansas officials. In Case No. 92-3396, Lane appeals the dismissal 

of his petition for habeas corpus relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 

2254. We affirm both decisions. 

We first address Lane's habeas petition. The district court 

dismissed that petition for failure to exhaust state remedies. 

The court noted that, since Lane had not been sentenced at the 

time of the petition, it was inconceivable that the state appeal 

process had even begun. Because neither the petitioner nor the 

record offers any evidence of exhaustion, we affirm the dismissal 

of Lane's petition for habeas corpus relief for failure to exhaust 

his state remedies. 

Mr. Lane also appeals the dismissal of his§ 1983 complaint. 

In that complaint, Lane alleged that the police lacked probable 

cause to arrest him and that he had a complete alibi defense to 

the crime charged. Lane further alleged that he was convicted not 

because he was guilty but because he was black. The district 

court determined that Lane was challenging the fact of his 

incarceration, a challenge properly brought in a habeas petition, 

not a civil rights complaint, and dismissed the complaint . We 

agree. 

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Petitioner's motions to proceed in forma pauperis and the 

certificate of probable cause are GRANTED. The orders of the 

district court dismissing the complaint in Case No. 92-3396 and 

the petition in Case No. 92-3397 are AFFIRMED. The mandate shall 

issue forthwith. 

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ENTERED FOR THE COURT 

Deanell Reece Tacha 

Circuit Judge 

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