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F I L E D
                                                                  United States Court of Appeals
                                                                          Tenth Circuit
                     UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                                                          OCT 3 2002
                                    TENTH CIRCUIT
                                                                    PATRICK FISHER
                                                                              Clerk

 CHARLES M. DIGGS, SR.,

          Petitioner - Appellant,
                                                       No. 02-5045
 v.
                                                  (D.C. No. 01-CV-74-E)
                                                     (N.D. Oklahoma)
 MIKE MULLIN, Warden,

          Respondent - Appellee.

                             ORDER AND JUDGMENT *

Before EBEL, LUCERO and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

      In September 1996, Petitioner-Appellant Charles M. Diggs, Sr., was

convicted in Oklahoma state court after entering pleas of guilty to one count of

escape from a penal institution after a former conviction of two or more felonies,

and two counts of bail jumping after former conviction of two or more felonies.

He was sentenced to two concurrent twenty-year terms of imprisonment.

      *
        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order and judgment is not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of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.
Proceeding pro se, Diggs applies for a certificate of appealability and appeals the

district court’s dismissal of his petition for writ of habeas corpus, which he filed

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. In his habeas petition, Diggs asserted two claims:

(1) that his conviction for escape from a penal institution violates the Due Process

Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and (2) that his conviction for bail jumping

violates the Fifth Amendment’s prohibition against double jeopardy.

       Diggs’ convictions became final on September 19, 1996 because he failed

to move to withdraw his plea or to perfect a direct appeal within ten days of the

entry of his Judgment and Sentence on September 9, 1996. See Rule 4.2, Rules of

the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, Okla. Stat. tit. 22, ch. 18, app. Diggs

took no action on his case until November 14, 1997, more than one year after his

conviction became final, when he filed his first application for state post-

conviction relief. On December 30, 1997, Diggs moved to dismiss without

prejudice his petition for post-conviction relief. On May 18, 2000, Diggs filed a

second application for state post-conviction relief. This second application was

denied by the state district court on September 12, 2000. The denial of post-

conviction relief was affirmed by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on

January 8, 2001. Finally, on January 31, 2001, Diggs filed his federal habeas

petition. The district court dismissed Diggs’ petition by concluding that no

tolling events arose within one year after his conviction became final and,

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consequently, the petition was barred by the applicable one-year statute of

limitations. See 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d).

      For substantially the reasons given by the district court, we DENY a

certificate of appealability and DISMISS the appeal.

                                        ENTERED FOR THE COURT

                                        David M. Ebel
                                        Circuit Judge

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