United States Tenth Circuit

Under 28 U.S.C. section 2254(b)(2), a district court faced with a habeas petition containing only unexhausted claims may either: 1)dismiss the entire petition without prejudice in order to permit exhaustion of state remedies; or, 2) deny the entire petition on the merits. Here, district court's order, employing unauthorized hybrid approach dismissing with prejudice one claim on the merits and the other without prejudice, reversed and remanded.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/29/2002
• Published 04/29/2002

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, McKAY, and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edwin L. Moore, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• W.A. Drew Edmondson, Attorney General of Oklahoma, Brant M. Elmore, Assistant Attorney General, Oklahoma City, OK, for Respondents-Appellees.