Legal Opinion
Beem v. McKune
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided January 27, 2003No. Nos. 00-3224, 00-3249PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TACHA, Chief Circuit Judge.
Petitioners-appellants Steven D. Beem and Donald H. Henson, Jr. sought habeas corpus relief in federal district court, 28 U.S.C. § 2254, arguing that the Kansas state courts violated their federal constitutional rights by sentencing them for aggravated incest — a crime for which they had never been charged, tried, or convicted. The district court denied the petitions for habeas corpus and the petitioners’ requests for certificates of appealability. Both petitioners appealed, and their cases were consolidated for our review. A divided panel of this court decided in…
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