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Parties Involved:
Alicia Jo Gower
Appellant
State of Oklahoma
Appellee

Document Text:

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ALICIA JO 

v. 

STATE OF 

GOWER, 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

) 

) 

Plaintiff-Appellant, ) 

) No. 

) (N. D. 

FILED 

United Srntes C.Ourt of Appeals 

'T'f"nth Cim1it 

AUG 14 1991 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

91-5038 

Oklahoma) 

) (D.C. No. M-1676-E) 

OKLAHOMA, ) 

) 

Defendant-Appellee. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before ANDERSON, TACHA, and BRORBY, 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 cause is therefore ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

Alicia Jo Gower filed a petition in the district court for 

removal of criminal proceedings brought against her in the State 

of Oklahoma. She alleged in her petition, and on appeal, that 

there is an "odor of conspiracy" surrounding the prosecutor and 

* 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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her prosecution and that her appointed counsel "has not or will 

not properly represent [her] or allow her to assist in her own 

defense." 

The district court denied Gower's motion to proceed in forma 

pauperis, and dismissed the removal petition. Subsequently, the 

district court also denied Gower's application for a certificate 

of probable cause. Gower appeals the district court's order 

denying her permission to proceed in forma pauperis, and 

dismissing her petition. We affirm. Nothing in Gower's petition 

for removal merits federal court jurisdiction. Her remedy, both 

with respect to any extraordinary relief to which she may be 

entitled, and with respect to any deficiencies which may result 

from her criminal prosecution, lies in the first instance with the 

state courts. 

Because Gower has neither raised a reasoned argument on the 

law and facts, Coppedge v. United States, 369 U.S. 438 (1962), nor 

demonstrated the issues raised are debatable among jurists, 

Barefoot v. Estelle, 463 U.S. 880, reh'g denied, 464 US. 874 

(1983), we deny a certificate of probable cause and the motion to 

proceed in forma pauperis. The appeal is DISMISSED. All pending 

motions are DENIED. The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

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ENTERED FOR THE COURT 

Stephen H. Anderson 

Circuit Judge 

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