F I L E D
United States Court of Appeals
Tenth Circuit
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
JUN 9 1998
TENTH CIRCUIT
PATRICK FISHER
Clerk
ROOSEVELT SPENCER McCOY,
Petitioner-Appellant,
No. 98-6110
v.
(D.C. No. 97-CV-673)
(W.D. Okla.)
TOM C. MARTIN, Warden,
Respondent-Appellee.
ORDER AND JUDGMENT *
Before BALDOCK, EBEL and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.
Defendant-appellant Roosevelt Spencer McCoy (“McCoy”) was convicted
by a jury in Oklahoma state court of possession with intent to distribute cocaine
and was sentenced to fifty-years imprisonment. McCoy filed a pro se petition
under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 on April 24, 1997, to vacate, set aside, or correct the
sentence imposed upon him. In his petition, McCoy argued insufficiency of the
*
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(f) and 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9.
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judgment is not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of the case,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.
evidence, improper jury instructions, improper state sentence/excessive
punishment, Fourth Amendment violations, and ineffective assistance of counsel.
The district court denied McCoy’s habeas petition on February 27, 1998.
Because McCoy filed his § 2254 petition on April 24, 1997, one year after
the effective date of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act
("AEDPA"), 28 U.S.C.A. §§ 2254-66 (1996), the AEDPA provision requiring a
certificate of appealability applies to McCoy's appeal. The district court denied a
certificate of appealability in an order dated April 1, 1998. In that same order,
the district court denied McCoy’s request for In Forma Pauperis status under 28
U.S.C. § 1915. McCoy now appeals the district court’s order. Finding no
substantial showing of the denial of an important federal right or any other reason
justifying further proceedings, we hereby deny a certificate of appealability. As a
result, because we find that the appeal does not present a reasoned, nonfrivolous
argument on appeal, we also deny McCoy’s motion for In Forma Pauperis status.
The mandate shall issue forthwith.
ENTERED FOR THE COURT
David M. Ebel
Circuit Judge
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