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Parties Involved:
Jerry Ewing
Appellant
Robert J. Tansy
Appellee

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS F I L j~ fJ U:iltoo Stat~ Court 01 Ap~b 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

JERRY EWING, 

Petitioner-Appellant, 

v. 

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MAYO 6 1992 

ROBERT L. HOECY~P. 

Clerk ., 

No . 91-2264 

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(D.N.M. Civ. No. 90-0078 M) 

ROBERT J. TANSY, 

Respondent-Appellee. 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before LOGAN, Circuit Judge, BARRETT, Senior Judge, and EBEL, 

Circuit Judge.t 

Appellant Ewing moves for the granting of a certificate of 

probable cause under 28 u.s.c. 2253 in order to appeal the 

district court's dismissal of his petition for habeas corpus 

relief under 28 U.S.C. S 2254. Because the appellant failed to 

raise any question cognizable under section 2254, we deny the 

motion for a certificate of probable cause. 

* 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. 

t 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. Therefore, the case is ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

Appellate Case: 91-2264 Document: 010110247630 Date Filed: 05/06/1992 Page: 1
The appellant alleges that New Mexico improperly applied its 

habitual offender statute, N.M. Stat. Ann.§ 31-18-17, to his 

conviction for distribution of marijuana. However, "federal 

habeas corpus relief does not lie for errors of state law." Lewis 

v. Jeffers, 110 S. Ct. 3092, 3102 (1990). Thus, the appellant's 

only remedies, which he has already exhausted, were direct appeal 

of the conviction and state habeas relief. 

We deny the motion for a certificate of probable cause and 

accordingly DISMISS the appeal. 

The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

Entered for the Court 

David M. Ebel 

Circuit Judge 

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