Dennis Stephen Waldon v. Jack Cowley, Warden

BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.

Pro se petitioner-appellant Dennis Stephen Waldon filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, see 28 U.S.C. § 2254, on April 14, 1987, initiating a collateral attack on a 1980 Oklahoma conviction entered after Waldon’s plea of guilty for knowingly concealing stolen property. Rec. vol. I, doc. 1. Waldon’s habeas challenge to the validity of his guilty plea was denied by the federal district court. Rec. vol. I, doe. 25. The district court granted Waldon’s request for a certificate of probable cause pursuant to Fed.R.App.P. 22(b), permitting review of the denial of the §…