Court Opinion

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F I L E D
                                                                  United States Court of Appeals
                                                                          Tenth Circuit
                   UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                                                          DEC 19 2002
                                TENTH CIRCUIT
                                                                       PATRICK FISHER
                                                                                 Clerk

 CONRAD J. BRAUN,
              Petitioner-Appellant,                      No. 02-3258
 v.                                             (D.C. No. 02-CV-3048-DES)
 STATE OF KANSAS,                                        (D. Kansas)
              Respondent-Appellee.

                          ORDER AND JUDGMENT *

Before KELLY, McKAY, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

      After examining Petitioner’s brief and the 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)(2); 10th Cir. R. 34.1(G).

The case is therefore ordered submitted without oral argument.

      This is a pro se 28 U.S.C. § 2254 prisoner appeal. In his habeas petition,

Mr. Braun sought relief from alleged constitutional errors in four state court

convictions for which he had fully served the sentences imposed. The magistrate

      *
       This order and judgment is not binding precedent, except under the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.
judge recommended that Petitioner be denied federal habeas relief since he was

no longer in custody pursuant to a state court judgment. After consideration of

Petitioner’s objections, the district court dismissed the petition for lack of subject

matter jurisdiction. Although Petitioner originally characterized his pleading as a

petition for a writ of habeas corpus, he titled his amended filing a petition for a

writ of coram nobis. The district court concluded that it lacked jurisdiction

regardless of how the petition and amended petition were construed.

      Finding no merit in any of Mr. Braun’s arguments, the district court

declined to grant him a certificate of appealability. Petitioner then applied to this

court for a certificate of appealability.

      In order for this court to grant a certificate of appealability, Petitioner must

make a “substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right.” 28 U.S.C. §

2253(c)(2). To do so, Petitioner must demonstrate “that reasonable jurists could

debate whether (or, for that matter, agree that) the petition should have been

resolved in a different manner or that the issues presented were adequate to

deserve encouragement to proceed further.” Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473,

484 (2000) (quotations omitted).

      We have carefully reviewed Mr. Braun’s brief, the district court’s

disposition, and the record on appeal. Nothing in the facts, the record on appeal,

or Petitioner’s brief raises an issue which meets our standards for the grant of a

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certificate of appealability. For substantially the same reasons as set forth by the

district court in its order of July 8, 2002, adopting the magistrate judge’s Report

and Recommendation, we cannot say “that reasonable jurists could debate whether

(or, for that matter, agree that) the petition should have been resolved in a

different manner.” Id. We DENY Petitioner’s request for a certificate of

appealability and DISMISS the appeal.

                                                Entered for the Court

                                                Monroe G. McKay
                                                Circuit Judge

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