Opinion ID: 166900
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Procedural allegations.

Text: Price’s original habeas petition confused the magistrate judge because Price alleged that the Colorado convictions he challenges occurred on three separate dates in 2003, while most of his state-court appeals of those convictions occurred in the 1990s. Price, however, corrected that confusion in his amended petition by indicating that the trial court actually entered the judgment of conviction he is now challenging on October 21, 1991. In light of this revision, then, Price appears to have sufficiently alleged the procedural history of his state convictions in his amended petition to satisfy Rule 8(a)’s requirements. The magistrate judge was also concerned because Price had alleged that the state trial court decision denying him state post-conviction relief “had been -7- affirmed April 21 and May 6, 2003,” yet Price also alleged, in his first § 2254 claim, that he had been denied an appeal from that denial. Price’s original § 2254 petition, however, clearly indicated that the state district court, not the Colorado appellate court, denied him post-conviction relief in 2003. It was from that decision that Price tried, but was apparently unable, to appeal.