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 This order and judgment is not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of the

case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel. The court generally disfavors the citation of orders and

judgments; nevertheless, an order and judgment may be cited under the terms and conditions of 10th

Cir. R. 36.3.

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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

Filed 4/25/96

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

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BIGLER JOBE STOUFFER, II, )

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Plaintiff-Appellant, )

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v. ) No. 95-6394

) (D.C. No. CIV-84-1395-A)

LARRY A. FIELDS, DOLORES RAMSEY, ) (W.D. Oklahoma)

DAN REYNOLDS, )

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Defendant-Appellee. )

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ORDER AND JUDGMENT*

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Before BRORBY, EBEL and HENRY, Circuit Judges.

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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.

Mr. Stouffer, a state inmate and pro se litigant, filed a civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983

against three prison employees. The trial court granted defendants' summary judgment and Mr.
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Stouffer appeals. We affirm.

Mr. Stouffer has been convicted of a capital offense, sentenced to death and is currently

confined in a maximum security area of an Oklahoma prison. Mr. Stouffer filed his § 1983 suit

alleging he was denied Due Process under the Fourteenth Amendment by being forced to defend

himself against five prison misconduct reports during a time in which two conflicting disciplinary

policies were in effect. He also contended he was placed in administrative segregation without due

process.

A Martinez report was ordered and received and Mr. Stouffer was informed it was being

treated as a motion for summary judgment and his failure to respond could result in the court

declaring the facts supporting the motion as true. The report clearly showed the Department of

Corrections was only operating under one policy and Mr. Stouffer was never subjected to two

conflicting policies. The report further found the classification of an inmate into administrative

segregation does not involve deprivation of a liberty interest independently protected by the Due

Process Clause and Mr. Stouffer failed to set forth or show any state law or prison regulation which

gave him a liberty interest in remaining free from administrative segregation.

During the litigation Mr. Stouffer filed numerous requests for thousands of pages of

photocopying which the Magistrate Judge denied.

The matter was referred to a Magistrate Judge who concluded, inter alia, that Mr. Stouffer
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was never subjected to conflicting policies; Mr. Stouffer was never placed in administrative

segregation; that Mr. Stouffer failed to demonstrate any liberty interest in remaining free from

administrative segregation. The Magistrate Judge recommended entry of summary judgment in

favor of defendants.

The Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation together with Mr. Stouffer’s objections

thereto claiming a factual dispute was given to the District Court. The District Court concluded the

alleged factual disputes are irrelevant to the dispositive legal issues. The District Court then applied

Sandin v. Conner, 115 S.Ct. 2293, 2300 (1995), which held a prison inmate can show he has a

protected liberty interest at stake only if he demonstrates that he is entitled under state law "to

freedom from restraint which, while not exceeding the sentence in such an unexpected manner as

to give rise to protection by the Due Process Clause of its own force, ... imposes atypical and

significant hardship on the inmate in relation to the ordinary incidents of prison life" (internal

citations omitted). Specifically the trial court noted that Mr. Stouffer is serving a capital sentence

and is confined under maximum security conditions on death row. The trial court noted the

imposition of discipline did not result in loss of earned good time credits because Mr. Stouffer

accrues none. Further the trial court noted Mr. Stouffer made no attempt to show either disciplinary

or administrative segregation imposed an atypical and significant hardship on him in relation to the

ordinary incidents of prison life. Finally the trial court found the denial of some of Mr. Stouffer’s

requests for photocopies did not hamper his ability to present his claims in this or any other

litigation.
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Mr. Stouffer appeals the dismissal by initially noting "[i]t is difficult to understand how a

maximum security death row inmate housed in H-Unit at Oklahoma’s State Penitentiary could be

further deprived of his rights, however, Appellees have found several ways to circumvent the written

laws on Access to Court and on Due Process and on Cruel and Unusual Punishment to Punish and

deprive even Death Sentenced inmates further." What follows in his brief is a litany of numerous

complaints concerning the limitation of his time in the prison law library to 3 1⁄2 hours per week;

charges that "many of the evidence documents have been confiscated and stolen or thrown away by

Appellees"; and asserting the cockroaches have more space in his cell than his legal data. Mr.

Stouffer spends considerable time in his brief speaking of injustices he has heard about concerning

other inmates. What Mr. Stouffer fails to do is to give us any citations or reasons informing us why

the trial court’s order was erroneous. He basically reargues his original allegations and adds

numerous others.

Mr. Stouffer’s brief is not persuasive. Mr. Stouffer fails to realize that to prevail on his

Fourteenth Amendment Due Process claim, he must first show some right under state law. This he

has failed to do. If he were able to show some right under state law, he must then make the showing

required by Sandin. This he has failed to do.

An inmate has no right to have all of his "evidentiary documents" photocopied. The

Magistrate Judge gave Mr. Stouffer the opportunity to summarize his evidence and even to copy it

by hand. Mr. Stouffer failed to do this. Even were we to assume the State somehow deprived Mr.

Stouffer of a right to have his documents photocopied, Mr. Stouffer has failed to inform this court
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how he was prejudiced by this alleged violation.

Finally, we cannot and will not consider issues raised for the first time on appeal. Neither

is this court an ombudsman accepting hearsay complaints of alleged injustices to other inmates.

The judgment of the trial court is AFFIRMED for substantially the same reasons set forth

in the Magistrate Judge’s Report and Recommendation filed August 31, 1995, and the order of the

trial court entered October 20, 1995, copies of both being attached hereto.

Entered for the Court:

WADE BRORBY

United States Circuit Judge