Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2010-08-14 06:46:45+00
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F I L E D
                                                                    United States Court of Appeals
                                                                            Tenth Circuit
                     UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                                                           DEC 19 2000
                                   TENTH CIRCUIT
                                                                       PATRICK FISHER
                                                                                Clerk

 BRIAN P. CALCARI,

          Petitioner-Appellant,
 v.
                                                         No. 00-1304
                                                     (D.C. No. 00-M-350)
 JOHN W. SUTHERS, Executive
                                                          (D. Colo.)
 Director; ATTORNEY GENERAL OF
 THE STATE OF COLORADO,

          Respondents-Appellees.

                            ORDER AND JUDGMENT *

Before SEYMOUR, Chief Judge, EBEL and BRISCOE, Circuit Judges.

      Brian P. Calcari is serving a 24-year sentence in Colorado state prison. He

brought this petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, raising four

issues: (1) his waiver of a jury trial was invalid; (2) insufficiency of the evidence;

and (3 and 4) his statements to police should have been suppressed. It appears that

      *
        After examining appellant’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) and 10th Cir. R.
34.1(G). The case is therefore ordered submitted without oral argument. 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Order and Judgment is not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of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.
all of these issues were raised in the Colorado Court of Appeals on direct appeal.

Only the first issue was raised in his petition for a writ of certiorari before the

Colorado Supreme Court, however. Calcari has not filed for post-conviction relief

in the state courts.

         The district court found that Calcari failed to exhaust state remedies on

three of the issues under the rule of O’Sullivan v. Boerckel, 526 U.S. 838, 119 S.

Ct. 1728, 144 L. Ed. 2d 1 (1999), which requires a petitioner to seek certiorari

when it is available. The court therefore dismissed Calcari’s petition without

prejudice under Rose v. Lundy, 455 U.S. 509, 102 S. Ct. 1198, 71 L. Ed. 2d 379

(1982), because it contained both exhausted and unexhausted claims. The court

denied Calcari’s request for a certificate of appealability and leave to proceed on

appeal in forma pauperis.

         Without a certificate of appealability, we lack jurisdiction over this appeal.

See 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c). For substantially the reasons stated by the district court,

we deny a certificate of appealability. Calcari asserts ineffective assistance of

appellate counsel for his failure to seek certiorari on all the issues. The Colorado

courts appear to entertain such issues in post-conviction proceedings. See, e.g.,

People v. Valdez, 789 P.2d 406, 407 (Colo. 1990) (en banc). Calcari must

therefore raise his ineffective-assistance issue there before bringing it to federal

court.

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      We also deny Calcari’s motion for leave to proceed on appeal without

prepayment of costs for substantially the reasons stated by the district court.

Given our disposition of this case, we need not review Calcari’s appeal of the

district court’s refusal to appoint counsel.

      For the foregoing reasons, we DISMISS this appeal for lack of jurisdiction.

                                        ENTERED FOR THE COURT

                                        David M. Ebel
                                        Circuit Judge

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