Castro v. Oklahoma, No. 08-6226 (10th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CasePro se prisoner Tony Castro requested a certificate of appealability (COA) to appeal a district court order that denied his petition for the writ of habeas corpus. Defendant pled guilty to second degree burglary and escape for which he was sentenced to two concurrent twenty-year sentences. Defendant argued to the Tenth Circuit that his guilty pleas were involuntary because his attorney coerced him to plead guilty and the trial court failed to develop a factual basis for his pleas. Upon review, the Tenth Circuit found "no jurist of reason would question the correctness" of the district court's decision to deny Defendant's petition. The Court denied Defendant's application for a COA and dismissed his appeal.
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