Jerome Smith v. Mississippi Parole Board

PER CURIAM: *

Jerome Pete Smith, Mississippi prisoner # 82058, filed the instant 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint to challenge, as a violation of due process, the Mississippi Parole Board’s (the Board’s) denying him parole and the procedures the Board followed in doing so. He also asserted an equal protection violation.

Smith’s notice of appeal was not timely to appeal the district court’s dismissal of his § 1983 complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. See Fed. R.App. P. 4(a)(1)(A); Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S. 205, 214, 127 S.Ct. 2360, 168 L.Ed.2d 96 (2007).…