Legal Opinion
Grant v. Royal
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided March 30, 2018No. 14-6131PublishedCited by 202 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOLMES, Circuit Judge.
*886Petitioner Donald Anthony Grant, an Oklahoma state prisoner on death row, appeals from the district court's denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition. Additionally, Mr. Grant filed a motion to expand the certificate of appealability ("COA"). Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, we affirm the district court's denial of Mr. Grant's § 2254 petition and deny Mr. Grant's motion to expand the COA.
I. BACKGROUND
A. Facts
"The OCCA outlined the facts of Mr. [Grant's] crimes, and '[w]e presume that the factual findings of the state court are correct' unless Mr.…
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