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                                            UNPUBLISHED

                               UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                   FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                              No. 23-7184

        TITO LEMONT KNOX,

                            Petitioner - Appellant,

                     v.

        JEFFREY KRUEGER,

                            Respondent - Appellee.

        Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Rock
        Hill. Timothy M. Cain, District Judge. (0:23-cv-02811-TMC)

        Submitted: March 28, 2024                                         Decided: April 2, 2023

        Before KING and RUSHING, Circuit Judges, and MOTZ, Senior Circuit Judge.

        Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

        Tito Lemont Knox, Appellant Pro Se.

        Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
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        PER CURIAM:

               Tito Lemont Knox appeals the district court’s November 8, 2023, text order denying

        Knox’s appeal of the magistrate judge’s order directing that Knox’s 28 U.S.C. § 2241

        petition be re-docketed as a motion for discharge under 18 U.S.C. § 4247(h) and

        administratively closing the underlying case. On appeal, we confine our review to the

        issues raised in the informal brief. See 4th Cir. R. 34(b). Because Knox’s informal brief

        does not challenge the basis for the district court’s disposition, he has forfeited appellate

        review of the court’s order. See Jackson v. Lightsey, 775 F.3d 170, 177 (4th Cir. 2014)

        (“The informal brief is an important document; under Fourth Circuit rules, our review is

        limited to issues preserved in that brief.”). Accordingly, we affirm the appealed-from text

        order. We deny Knox’s motion for copies of the grand jury minutes, as supplemented, and

        deny as moot Knox’s motion to expedite resolution of this appeal.

               We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are

        adequately presented in the materials before this court and argument would not aid the

        decisional process.

                                                                                        AFFIRMED

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