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                                                                          United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                  Tenth Circuit
                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                                                                  MAR 23 2000
                                         TENTH CIRCUIT
                                                                              PATRICK FISHER
                                                                                          Clerk

 KEVIN WINSTON OSBORN,

              Petitioner-Appellant,
 v.                                                             No. 99-8071
 VANCE EVERETT, Warden of the                              (D.C. No. 98-CV-175)
 Wyoming State Penitentiary;                                     (D. Wyo.)
 ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE
 STATE OF WYOMING,

              Respondents-Appellees.

                                      ORDER AND JUDGMENT*

Before BALDOCK, HENRY, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.**

          Petitioner Kevin Winston Osborn appeals the district court’s dismissal of his

petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging the execution of his Wyoming state

sentence. See 28 U.S.C. § 2241. We exercise jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(a), and

affirm.

          This order and judgment is not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of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

         After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel has determined
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unanimously that oral argument would not materially assist the determination of this
appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2)(C); 10th Cir. R. 34.1(G). The case is therefore
ordered submitted without oral argument.
                                             I.

       In 1980, Petitioner escaped from Alabama state prison while serving a fifteen-year

sentence for robbery and grand larceny. While an escapee, Petitioner participated in a

Wyoming crime spree involving murder, robbery, rape, and related crimes. Suffice it to

say that Wyoming authorities caught, charged, and convicted Petitioner in 1982, and

sentenced him to life imprisonment.1 After Petitioner spent twelve years incarcerated in

the Wyoming State Penitentiary, Wyoming honored Alabama’s extradition request and

conditionally released Petitioner to the Alabama Department of Corrections in July 1994

to complete his Alabama sentence. Prior to extradition, Alabama and Wyoming entered

into an executive agreement under which Petitioner would complete his Alabama

sentence while Wyoming retained jurisdiction over him. Wyoming subsequently issued a

rendition warrant for Petitioner’s return and lodged a detainer against Petitioner with the

Alabama Department of Corrections. After Petitioner completed his Alabama sentence,

Wyoming extradited him in March 1998 to serve the remainder of his life sentence.2

       1
          Petitioner’s criminal escapades are fully chronicled in Osborn v. State, 806 P.2d
259 (Wyo. 1991); Osborn v. Shillinger, No. 90-8047, 1991 WL 65006 (10th Cir. April 24,
1991) (unpublished); Osborn v. Shillinger, 803 F. Supp. 371 (D. Wyo. 1992), aff’d 997
F.2d 1324 (10th Cir. 1993). Petitioner has been actively litigating against prison officials
in the civil arena as well. Osborn v. Shillinger, No. 94-8058, 1995 WL 3984 (10th Cir.
Jan. 4, 1995) (unpublished); Osborn v. Shillinger, No. 90-8099, 1991 WL 74994 (10th
Cir. May 8, 1991) (unpublished).
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         Because Petitioner’s release from confinement in Wyoming was not
unconditional, he continued to be “in custody” of Wyoming authorities throughout his
incarceration in Alabama, and thus eligible to seek habeas relief. See Ball v. Scott, No.
                                                                              (continued...)

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       According to Petitioner, Wyoming informed him of the detainer on July 25, 1994.

Petitioner subsequently filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Alabama state

court challenging the Wyoming detainer. The court dismissed the petition, and on

November 9, 1995, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed. Osborn v. State,

No. CR-94-1528 (Ala. Crim. App. Nov. 9, 1995) (unpublished mem.). Petitioner next

filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in the Alabama federal

district court on July 30, 1997.3 That court transferred the petition to the Wyoming

federal district court in July 1998. In a thorough order, the district court dismissed the

petition as time-barred. Osborn v. Everett, No. 98-CV-175-D, order at 5-8 (D. Wyo. July

8, 1999).

                                              II.

       In 1996, as part of the AEDPA, Congress established a one-year period of

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        (...continued)
93-3345, 1994 WL 562023 at *1 (10th Cir. Oct. 13, 1994) (unpublished) (recognizing
that a “prisoner serving a sentence in one state, against whom a detainer had been filed
with his jailers by another state, [was] sufficiently ‘in custody’ pursuant to the detainer
such that he could bring a habeas attack on the outstanding charge underlying the
detainer”) (citing Maleng v. Cook, 490 U.S. 488, 490-91 (1989)).
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          Although Petitioner alleges his petition arises under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, and the
district court construed it as such, we construe it as arising under 28 U.S.C. § 2241,
because it challenges the execution of his Wyoming state sentence, rather than its validity.
See McIntosh v. United States Parole Comm’n, 115 F.3d 809, 811 (10th Cir. 1997)
(explaining that a § 2241 petition attacks the execution of a sentence whereas a § 2254
petition attacks the underlying validity of a conviction and sentence). A certificate of
appealability, see 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c), is not required to appeal the denial of a
§ 2241 petition. McIntosh, 115 F.3d at 810 n.1.

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limitations for filing habeas corpus petitions. As relevant here, the limitations period

begins to run under 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d)(1)(D) from “the date on which the factual

predicate of the claim . . . presented could have been discovered through the exercise of

due diligence.” Because Petitioner learned of Wyoming’s detainer against him on July

25, 1994, nearly two years before the AEDPA’s effective date of April 24, 1996, he had

until April 23, 1997 to challenge the detainer. See Hoggro v. Boone, 150 F.3d 1223,

1225-27 (10th Cir. 1998) (where conviction becomes final before effective date of

AEDPA, state prisoner absent tolling has one year from April 24, 1996 to file habeas

petition). Petitioner did not file his petition until July 30, 1997. While the limitations

period is generally tolled during the time a petitioner has “a properly filed application for

State post-conviction or other collateral review” pending in state court, see 28 U.S.C.

§ 2244(d)(2), Petitioner’s only application for post-conviction relief was filed and

resolved in Alabama state court prior to April 24, 1996, the commencement of the one

year limitations period. Accordingly, the district court properly held his petition

time-barred.

       AFFIRMED.

                                           Entered for the Court,

                                           Bobby R. Baldock
                                           Circuit Judge

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