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                                [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]

                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT
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        No. 96-2356

                                   CRAIG J. MERCER,

                                Plaintiff, Appellant,

                                          v.

                              SHERIFF CUMBERLAND COUNTY,

                                 Defendant, Appellee.

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                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

                              FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE

                     [Hon. Morton A. Brody, U.S. District Judge]
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                                        Before

                                Torruella, Chief Judge,
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                           Stahl and Lynch, Circuit Judges.
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            Craig J. Mercer on brief pro se.
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            William R. Fisher, Ivy L. Frignoca and Monaghan, Leahy, Hochadel
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        & Libby on brief for appellee.
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                                   October 14, 1997
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                      Per Curiam.   Plaintiff-appellant Craig  J. Mercer,
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            an Ohio  prisoner, appeals pro  se from the dismissal  of his
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            complaint under 42 U.S.C.   1983 alleging that the Sheriff of

            Cumberland County (Maine) unlawfully detained Mercer and then

            unlawfully  transferred him  to Ohio authorities,  without an

            extradition  hearing,   to  face   final  parole   revocation

            proceedings.   See  28 U.S.C.     1915(e)(2)(B),  1915A.   We
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            affirm.

                      Contrary to Mercer's  suggestion, we  do not  think

            that he stated  a claim for unlawful detention.   Pursuant to

            Maine's Uniform Act for Out-of-State Parolee Supervision, the

            sheriff  had the  authority  to  detain  Mercer  pending  the

            preliminary parole revocation hearing in Maine, and, since it

            appeared that  a retaking was  likely, for a  reasonable time

            thereafter.  Me. Rev.  Stat. Ann. tit. 34-A,   9861.   We are

            not  persuaded that the  length of  detention in  the instant

            case was unreasonable.        The  Uniform  Act  for  Out-of-

            State  Parolee Supervision  also permits  the  retaking of  a

            parolee subject to  the Act without "formalities"  other than

            "establishing the authority  of the officer and  the identity

            of the person to be retaken."  Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 34-A,

              9803.  Mercer makes  no argument that this Act incorporates

            the  procedural  protections  afforded  by  Maine's  Criminal

            Extradition Act, and the language of   9803 would suggest the

            contrary.    Under  the  circumstances,  and  passing without

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            deciding  the question  whether  a  failure  to  comply  with

            extradition  procedures creates  a cause  of  action under   

            1983, we find no error in the dismissal.

                      Affirmed.
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