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Date Created: 2023-06-21 18:00:47.341457+00
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Case: 23-60053        Document: 00516794148             Page: 1      Date Filed: 06/21/2023

             United States Court of Appeals
                  for the Fifth Circuit
                                     ____________                              United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                        Fifth Circuit

                                      No. 23-60053                                    FILED
                                                                                  June 21, 2023
                                    Summary Calendar
                                    ____________                                 Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                                      Clerk
   John Howard Overstreet,

                                                                    Plaintiff—Appellant,

                                            versus

   Doug Miller, Assistant Prosecutor; Chip Lewis, County Public
   Defender; Prentiss Harrell, 15th Judicial Circuit Court Judge,

                                              Defendants—Appellees.
                     ______________________________

                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                       for the Southern District of Mississippi
                               USDC No. 2:20-CV-124
                     ______________________________

   Before Jones, Haynes, and Oldham, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
         In June 2020, John Howard Overstreet pled guilty to being a sex
   offender living within 3,000 feet of a school. See Miss. Code Ann.
   § 45-33-25(4)(a) (West 2023). Judge Prentiss Harrell of Mississippi’s
   Fifteenth Judicial District sentenced Overstreet to a five-year term of
   probation. Then in July 2020—proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis—
         _____________________
         *
             This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 23-60053      Document: 00516794148           Page: 2     Date Filed: 06/21/2023

                                     No. 23-60053

   Overstreet filed a Section 1983 suit against prosecutor Doug Miller, public
   defender Chip Lewis, and Judge Harrell. Overstreet alleges the defendants
   violated his constitutional rights by not informing Overstreet that he would
   have to wear an ankle monitor as a condition of probation.
          The district court dismissed Overstreet’s complaint for failure to state
   a claim, see 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(ii), and levied a strike under 28 U.S.C.
   § 1915(g). Specifically, the district court accepted the magistrate judge’s
   report and recommendation that Overstreet had failed to state any basis why
   Harrell and Miller are not entitled to immunity, why Lewis had acted under
   color of state law, or why all of Overstreet’s claims are not barred by Heck v.
   Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994). On appeal, Overstreet still fails to brief any
   of the issues the district court ruled upon. He has therefore “forfeited any
   challenge to the district court’s primary holding that the allegations failed to
   state a plausible claim.” Stevens v. St. Tammany Par. Gov’t, 17 F.4th 563, 574
   (5th Cir. 2021); see also Fed. R. App. P. 28(a)(8); Jaco v. Garland, 24 F.4th
   395, 401 n.1 (5th Cir. 2021) (“Although we liberally construe pro se [filings],
   pro se litigants must still comply with the civil rules of appellate procedure.”).
          AFFIRMED.

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