United States Tenth Circuit

Funding is not authorized under 21 U.S.C. section 848(q)(8), to entitle state prisoners to federally appointed and funded counsel to represent them in state clemency proceedings.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/26/2003
• Published 03/26/2003

Judges

• BRISCOE, Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Judge, EBEL, KELLY, BRISCOE, LUCERO, MURPHY, HARTZ, O'BRIEN, and McCONNELL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steven M. Presson and Robert W. Jackson of Jackson & Presson, P.C., Norman, OK, for Petitioner-Appellant., David E. O'Meilia, United States Attorney, and Kevin Danielson, Assistant United States Attorney, Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the United States.   Susan M. Otto, Federal Public Defender, Western District of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, amicus curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• W.A. Drew Edmondson, Attorney General of Oklahoma and Robert L. Whittaker, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Oklahoma City, OK, for Respondent-Appellee.