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Case: 22-20544         Document: 00516734734             Page: 1      Date Filed: 05/02/2023

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

                                       No. 22-20544
                                                                                       FILED
                                                                                      May 2, 2023
                                     Summary Calendar
                                     ____________                                Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                                      Clerk
   United States of America,

                                                                      Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                             versus

   Lewis Gilmore Hurst,

                                               Defendant—Appellant.
                      ______________________________

                      Appeal from the United States District Court
                          for the Southern District of Texas
                               USDC No. 4:04-CR-355-1
                      ______________________________

   Before Smith, Southwick, and Douglas, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
          Lewis Gilmore Hurst, federal prisoner # 38756-179, appeals from the
   district court’s denial in part of his 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) motion for
   compassionate release. On appeal, Hurst contends that he was erroneously
   sentenced as a career offender under the Sentencing Guidelines and that the
   sentencing error constitutes an extraordinary and compelling circumstance

          _____________________
          *
              This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 22-20544     Document: 00516734734          Page: 2    Date Filed: 05/02/2023

                                   No. 22-20544

   warranting relief.    Because he does not reprise his arguments that
   extraordinary and compelling circumstances exist due to a change in the law
   as concerns the Armed Career Criminal Act and due to his susceptibility to
   contracting severe COVID-19, they are abandoned. See Yohey v. Collins, 985
   F.2d 222, 224-25 (5th Cir. 1993).
          We review the denial of Hurst’s § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) motion for an
   abuse of discretion. See United States v. Chambliss, 948 F.3d 691, 693 (5th
   Cir. 2020). “[A] prisoner cannot use § 3582(c) to challenge the legality or
   the duration of a sentence.” United States v. Escajeda, 58 F.4th 184, 187 (5th
   Cir. 2023). As such, Hurst fails to demonstrate that the district court abused
   its discretion in denying relief as to his argument that he could show
   extraordinary and compelling circumstances inasmuch as he was erroneously
   sentenced as a career offender. See Chambliss, 948 F.3d at 693. The district
   court’s decision is AFFIRMED.

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