Opinion
No. 16-55264
11-21-2016
PAUL GORDON WHITMORE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JEFFERY DORT, Asst. District Attorney, SD County; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
D.C. No. 3:14-cv-02949-DMS-BGS MEMORANDUM Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California
Dana M. Sabraw, District Judge, Presiding Before: LEAVY, BERZON, and MURGUIA, Circuit Judges.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
California state prisoner Paul Gordon Whitmore appeals pro se from the district court's judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging due process violations arising from his conviction and sentence. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo. Resnick v. Hayes, 213 F.3d 443, 447 (9th Cir. 2000) (dismissal under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A); Barren v. Harrington, 152 F.3d 1193, 1194 (9th Cir. 1998) (order) (dismissal under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)). We may affirm on any ground supported by the record, Cigna Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co. v. Polaris Pictures Corp., 159 F.3d 412, 418 (9th Cir. 1998), and we affirm.
To the extent that success on Whitmore's due process claims would necessarily imply the invalidity of his conviction or sentence, the district court properly concluded that Whitmore's action is Heck-barred because Whitmore failed to allege facts demonstrating that his conviction or sentence has been invalidated. See Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 486-87 (1994).
To the extent that success on Whitmore's due process claims would not necessarily imply the invalidity of his conviction or sentence, dismissal of Whitmore's due process claims was proper because Whitmore failed to allege facts sufficient to show any cognizable injury. See Long v. County of Los Angeles, 442 F.3d 1178, 1185 (9th Cir. 2006) ("To state a claim under § 1983, a plaintiff must allege . . . that a right secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States was violated[.]"); Wright v. Riveland, 219 F.3d 905, 913 (9th Cir. 2000) (setting forth elements of a procedural due process claim).
AFFIRMED.