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Kelly Patrick ROCHE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF DALLAS; et al. Defendants, Scott Matthew Jay; Ramon Martinez, Jr., Defendants-Appellees.
    No. 04-10240.
    Summary Calendar.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    Decided Nov. 16, 2004.
    Robert Joseph Wiley, Dallas, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    Jason G. Schuette, Assistant City Attorney, John Lomax Anderson, City Attorney’s Office for the City of Dallas, Dallas, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.
    Before GARZA, DeMOSS, and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

Scott Matthew Jay and Ramon Martinez, Jr. appeal the district court’s order denying their motion for summary judgment asserting their right to qualified immunity from suit with regard to Kelly Patrick Roche’s civil rights action alleging that Jay and Martinez used excessive force in arresting him for public intoxication without probable cause.

Jay and Martinez argue that the district court misapplied the qualified-immunity standard by failing to consider whether the summary judgment evidence showed that their actions were based upon the mistaken but reasonable belief that Roche was attempting to escape when he was “pushed” to the ground. They contend that the summary judgment evidence did not show that Martinez had caused injuries to Roche’s wrists by placing metal handcuffs on them too tightly. They contend that the summary judgment evidence showed that Roche was visibly intoxicated and they reasonably believed that he was in violation of the law against public intoxication under the circumstances of the arrest. These arguments go to the question whether there were genuine issues of fact for trial and to the reasonableness of Jay’s and Martinez’s actions, under their own version of the facts. Because the court lacks jurisdiction to consider these issues in an interlocutory appeal, see Reyes v. City of Richmond, Tex., 287 F.3d 346, 350-51 (5th Cir.2002), the appeal is

DISMISSED. 
      
       Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.