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ORDER DENYING CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY, DENYING MOTION TO PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS AND DISMISSING APPEAL

Before TACHA, BRISCOE, and O’BRIEN, Circuit Judges.

Darrin Lynn Pickens, an Oklahoma state prisoner appearing pro se,*fn1 seeks to appeal from the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition, which claims constitutional irregularities in his conviction for the 1990 murder of Tommy Lee Hayes. Exercising jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1291 and § 2253(c)(1), we DENY his request for a certificate of appealability (“COA”), DENY his request to proceed in forma pauperis, and DISMISS this matter.

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