Legal Opinion
Douglas French v. Cynthia Carlson
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 3, 2010No. 08-35892UnpublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM **
Douglas Stephen French, an Oregon state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B) his action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that defendants unlawfully amended a judgment in his state criminal case in order to impose consecutive sentences. We review de novo, Barren v. Harrington, 152 F.3d 1193, 1194 (9th Cir.1998) (order), and we affirm.
The district court properly dismissed the claims against the state judge on grounds of judicial immunity because the state judge was not acting in the “clear absence” of…
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