ORDER DENYING CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY*
NEIL M. GORSUCH, Circuit Judge.
After Donald Smith was convicted in Oklahoma of first degree murder, he filed an unsuccessful application with the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board seeking a commutation of his sentence. And this, in turn and eventually, led him to file a petition in federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. In his federal habeas petition, Mr. Smith alleged that...
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