Gary M. Scobie v. The State of Oklahoma

DAVID T. LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, presently confined in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, asserting that he had been denied a federal constitutional right through the unilateral acts of the state public defender in refusing to perfect an appeal on appellant’s behalf. Finding that appellant’s contentions had merit, the federal district court, 239 F.Supp. 646, held in abeyance an order of relief to allow the State of Oklahoma an opportunity to afford appellate review of…