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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 APPEAJl!Jlited sr:sth Circuit 

EUGENE MYERS, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, 

v. 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

KATHY DIAMOND, Detective; RICHARD 

McKELVIE, Deputy County Attorney; 

NICK ROBERTS, Deputy County Sheriff, 

Defendants-Appellees. 

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ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

MAY 11 1993 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

· Clerk 

No. 92-4186 

(D.C. No. 87-CV-139) - (Dist. of Utah} 

Before McKAY, SETH and BARRETT, Circuit Judges. 

After examining the briefs and the 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}; Tenth Cir. R. 34.1.9. The cause is therefore 

ordered submitted without oral argument. 

Eugene Myers, a state prisoner appearing m ~ and in forma 

pauperis, appeals from an order of the district court dismissing 

with prejudice his civil rights action brought pursuant to 42 

u.s.c. § 1983. 

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be 

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res 

This Order and Judgment has no precedential v alue and shall not 

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

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

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

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Myers pled guilty to state forgery charg2s. Subsequent 

thereto Myers filed the instant federal civil rights action 

alleging that: ~is Fourth Amendment rights were violated when he 

was arrested without probable cause; his car was unlawfully 

stopped; an envelope was unlawfully seized from his car; his 

apartment was unlawfully searched; and that he was unlawfully 

incarcerated in jail. Defendants-appellees responded that Myers' 

complaint failed to state a claim upon which relief can be 

granted; Myers' arrest was based on probable cause; and that 

Myers' car and apartment were properly searched. 

The district court, after finding that Myers had been 

lawfully stopped, that he had pled guilty to the forgery for which 

he was arrested, and that he had failed to establish that the 

search of his home was invalid, entered an order dismissing Myers' 

complaint with prejudice. 

On appeal, Myers contends that: the summary denial of relief 

despite the fact that his prose complaint was before the court 

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and the summary denial was ordered in his absence constituted a 

denial of his constitutional right to be heard; plain error was 

committed by the summary denial of his complaint when the 

Magistrate Judge had found that he (Myers) had raised meritorious 

issues and the district court had agreed with the Magistrate 

Judge's Report and Recommendation. 

We have reviewed the entire record. We AFFIRM the district 

court's order dismissing Myers' complaint substantially for the 

reasons set forth ln the district court's order of September 17, 

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1992, a copy of which is attached hereto. 

AFFIRMED. The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

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Entered for the Court: 

James E. Barrett, 

Senior United States 

Circuit Judge 

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