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Jesus MEJIA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Khurshid Z. YUSUFF, RespondentAppellee.
    No. 02-60947.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    Aug. 19, 2003.
    Before JONES, WIENER, and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM.

Jesus Mejia, a federal prisoner (# 66947-079), appeals the district court’s dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241.

In 1995, the district court for the Northern District of Florida imposed upon Mejia consecutive prison terms of 210 months and 60 months for his jury-trial convictions of conspiracy to possess marijuana with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm during a drug-trafficking offense. Mejia has argued that, although the conspiracy count charged him with conspiring to violate 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A), which applies to marijuana quantities exceeding 1,000 kilograms, he was in fact convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(B). He has thus contended that he was “actually innocent” of the conspiracy offense as charged.

The district court did not err in dismissing the petition for lack of jurisdiction. Mejia acknowledges that a collateral challenge to a conviction should ordinarily be brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Mejia’s substantive contention does not satisfy the requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 2255’s “savings clause,” so as to enable him to proceed instead under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. He has demonstrated neither that he was convicted of conduct that did not constitute a crime nor that his claims were foreclosed by circuit law at the time of his conviction or appeal. See Reyes-Requena v. United States, 243 F.3d 893, 904 (5th Cir.2001); Jeffers v. Chandler, 253 F.3d 827, 830-31 (5th Cir.2001).

Mejia’s appeal is without arguable merit and is thus frivolous. See Howard v. King, 707 F.2d 215, 219-20 (5th Cir.1983). Because the appeal is frivolous, it is DISMISSED. See 5th Cir. R. 42.2.

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       Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.