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Parties Involved:
Ronald L. Hall
Appellant
State of Utah
Appellee

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CIRCUIT FEB 9 1990 

&OBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk RONALD L. HALL, 

Petitioner-Appellant, 

v. 

STATE OF UTAH, 

Respondent-Appellee. 

No. 89-4091 

(D.C. No. 89-C-042J) 

(D. Utah) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before TACHA, BALDOCK, 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 case is therefore ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

Ronald L. Hall appeals from the district court's summary 

denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Hall contends 

that he is being held pursuant to an ex post facto law. We do not 

reach the merits of this contention because Hall has failed to 

exhaust his state remedies. See Osborn~ Shillinger, 861 F.2d 

612, 616 (10th Cir. 1988); 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b). An exception is 

* 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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made for the section 2254(b) exhaustion requirement "only if there 

is no opportunity to obtain redress in state court or if the 

corrective process is so clearly deficient as to render futile any 

effort to obtain relief." Duckworth~ Serrano, 454 U.S. 1, 3 

(1981). No such showing has been made in this case. 

The motion for a certificate of probable cause is DENIED. 

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ENTERED FOR THE COURT 

Deanell Reece Tacha 

Circuit Judge 

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