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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 

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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

FEB 2 0 1991 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

LIN EDWARD DAVIS, SR., ) 

) 

Plaintiff-Appellant, ) 

) No. 90-6181 

v. ) (D.C. No. CIV-89-2227-T) 

) (W. D. Oklahoma) 

JACK DEMPSEY POINTER, JR., ) 

) 

Defendant-Appellee. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before MCKAY, MOORE, and BRORBY, Circuit Judges. 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 

34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. The cause is therefore ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

Mr. Davis filed a prose§ 1983 action against the lawyer who 

defended Mr. Davis in a prior federal criminal prosecution. The 

*This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall not 

be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, except 

for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of the case, 

res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 36.3. 

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district court dismissed the action because the defendant was not 

a state actor as required by§ 1983. That ruling is correct. 

Pitts v. Turner and Boisseau, Chartered, 850 F.2d 650, 653 (10th 

Cir. 1988), cert. denied, 488 U.S. 1030 (1989); Barnard v. Young, 

720 F.2d 1188, 1189 (10th Cir. 1983). 

AFFIRMED. 

Entered for the Court 

John P. Moore 

Circuit Judge 

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