Legal Opinion
McWilliams v. State of Colorado
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 11, 1997No. 96-1328PublishedCited by 234 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRORBY, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff-Appellant Paul McWilliams initiated this pro se action while he was a prison inmate in the custody of the Colorado Department of Corrections. The district court construed Mr. McWilliams’ complaint as both a civil rights claim pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1983 (1994) and an application for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1994), amended by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Pub.L. No. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1214 (1996). The court then dismissed both aspects of Mr. McWilliams’ complaint, which dismissal Mr. McWilliams now…
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