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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 

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The defendants were not served with process in district court and are not

participating in this appeal.  After examining the appellant’s brief and the record, we have

concluded that oral argument is unnecessary.  Thus, the appeal is submitted on the

appellant’s brief and the record.  See FED. R. APP. P. 34(a)(2)(A).

United States Court of Appeals

For the Seventh Circuit

Chicago, Illinois 60604

Submitted March 24, 2010*

Decided March 25, 2010

Before

FRANK H. EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge

ANN CLAIRE WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge

JOHN DANIEL TINDER, Circuit Judge

No. 09‐4014

EVERETT LOWE,

Plaintiff‐Appellant,

v.

RICHARD A. DEVINE, et al.,

Defendants‐Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District

Court for the Northern District of Illinois,

Eastern Division.

No. 09 C 6910

John W. Darrah,

Judge.

O R D E R

Everett Lowe is serving a 65‐year prison sentence in Illinois for attempted first‐

degree murder.  Lowe had entered a police station with a gun and tried to shoot an officer

in the head, but the weapon jammed.  The trial court issued a mittimus (an order directing

NONPRECEDENTIAL DISPOSITION

To be cited only in accordance with

 Fed. R. App. P. 32.1

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jailers to carry out the judgment) identifying the statutory citation for first‐degree murder

but not for the crime of attempt, and although the mittimus was amended to include the

missing citation, Lowe has long insisted that he was wrongly convicted of murder instead of

attempted murder.  He sought collateral relief in state and federal court on the basis of this

theory, and when those efforts failed, Lowe filed this civil‐rights action claiming that

prosecutors, defense lawyers, appellate judges, and others have conspired to keep his

unlawful imprisonment under wraps.  He seeks hundreds of millions of dollars and a

declaration that his rights were violated.  The district court dismissed Lowe’s complaint on

initial screening under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A.

That ruling was appropriate.  The state trial court accurately pronounced judgment

against Lowe for attempted first‐degree murder but left out of the mittimus a citation to the

attempt statute.  That clerical error was promptly corrected as allowed by Illinois law, see

People v. Latona, 703 N.E.2d 901, 910 (Ill. 1998); People v. Wright, 78 N.E.2d 870, 872‐73 (Ill.

App. Ct. 2003), and Lowe’s fanciful allegations of improprieties committed in the name of

covering up his wrongful imprisonment are facially implausible.  See Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 129 S.

Ct. 1937, 1949 (2009); Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 570 (2007).

Before this appeal Lowe had already incurred three strikes under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g),

forcing him to prepay the appellate fees.  This appeal is his fourth strike.

   AFFIRMED.

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