HALE v. U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE

No. 91-6135.

973 F.2d 894 (1992)

Alvie James HALE, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, and its component, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

August 31, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott W. Braden, Asst. Appellate Public Defender, Norman, Okl., for plaintiff-appellant.

Warren D. Majors, Asst. U.S. Atty., Oklahoma City, Okl. (Timothy D. Leonard, U.S. Atty., Oklahoma City, Okl., with him on the brief) for defendants-appellees.

Before EBEL, Circuit Judge, BARRETT, Senior Circuit Judge, and PARKER, District Judge.


EBEL, Circuit Judge.

For purposes of a collateral attack on his death sentence, Alvie James Hale, Jr. seeks to obtain certain documents from the United States Department of Justice ("DOJ") and the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") (collectively, "the government") pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. § 552. After an in camera inspection of the materials in question, the district court granted the government's motion for summary...

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