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Parties Involved:
Joseph A. Bonacci
Appellant
Wayne Thomas Dance
Appellee
Richard Allen Tyree
Appellant
Utah State Bar
Appellee

Document Text:

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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

United States Court of Appeals 

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APR 2 0 1990 

.&OBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk RICHARD ALLEN TYREE and 

JOSEPH A. BONACCI, 

Plaintiffs-Appellants, 

vs. 

WAYNE THOMAS DANCE and 

THE UTAH BAR ASSOCIATION, 

Defendants-Appellees. 

No. 89-4102 

(D.C. No. 88-C-0998S) 

(D. Utah) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before LOGAN, SEYMOUR and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges.** 

Plaintiff-appellants, Richard Tyree and Joseph Bonacci, 

originally filed this action in Utah state court alleging 

Assistant United States Attorney, Wayne Dance, unlawfully 

prosecuted them on drug-related charges in the Utah federal 

district court because, at the time of their prosecution, Dance 

was not a member of the Utah State Bar Association. As an officer 

* 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. 

** 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 therefore is ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

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of the United States government, Dance removed the action to 

federal court under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1441 & 1442. Noting that the 

issue of the propriety of Tyree's and Bonacci's prosecution had 

been repeatedly raised and upheld in prior criminal proceedings, 

the district court dismissed the complaint on the basis of issue 

preclusion and prosecutorial immunity, and sanctioned the two men 

$2,500 collectively because their complaint had no basis in law or 

fact in violation of Fed. R. Civ. P. 11. Rec. vol. I, doc. 30. 

On appeal, Tyree and Bonacci contend (1) the district court was 

without jurisdiction over their complaint, (2) their action was 

improperly removed from state court, (3) the district judge was 

required to recuse himself from hearing their action, and (4) the 

monetary sanction against them was unwarranted. 

This appeal is patently frivolous. In the recent appeal of 

Tyree v. United States, 892 F.2d 958 (10th Cir. 1989), Judge 

Seymour for the court explained why Dance's representation of the 

government in the criminal prosecution of Tyree was not unlawful. 

The same rationale applies to the prosecution of Bonacci. For 

these men to attempt to achieve in state court what they failed to 

achieve in federal court is an abuse of the judicial process. To 

assert the federal district court was without the power to 

adjudicate this matter is ridiculous. Any further proceedings by 

Tyree and/or Bonacci concerning Dance's representation of the 

government in their criminal prosecution will result in further 

sanctions against them. 

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AFFIRMED. 

Entered for the Court 

Bobby R. Baldock 

Circuit Judge 

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