UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

TENTH CIRCUIT

CHARLES MATHES, JR.,

Petitioner-Appellant,

v.

GARY GIBSON, Warden of J.C.C.C.,

Respondent-Appellee.	No. 97-5221

(D.C. No. CV-97-941)

(N.D. Okla.)

ORDER AND JUDGMENT*

Before BALDOCK, EBEL and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Charles Mathes, Jr. ("Mathes") is subject to both federal and Oklahoma state sentences for various crimes. While serving time in federal prison in 1989, Mathes pleaded guilty to a 1987 Oklahoma drug offense and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment to be served concurrently with his federal sentence. Also in 1989, Oklahoma revoked Mathes' parole for a 1980 robbery conviction and ordered that he serve the remainder of his 10-year to 32-year sentence. Oklahoma filed a detainer against Mathes, and upon Mathes' parole from federal prison in 1996, he was returned to Oklahoma. Oklahoma officials determined that the two-year sentence imposed in 1989 had expired. However, Oklahoma retained custody of Mathes on the parole revocation.

Mathes filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, contending that the Oklahoma parole revocation was to be served concurrently with the federal sentence and, as a result, that Oklahoma had an obligation to release him to his federal parole. The district court denied the petition and denied Mathes a certificate of appealability.

We do not find that Mathes has made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right. See 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c). Therefore, we deny a certificate of appealability and DISMISS the appeal.

The mandate shall issue forthwith.

ENTERED FOR THE COURT

David M. Ebel

Circuit Judge