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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FILED
FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
________________________ ELEVENTH CIRCUIT
OCT 20, 2008
No. 08-11589 THOMAS K. KAHN
Non-Argument Calendar CLERK
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D. C. Docket No. 06-00100-CV-3
AARON LE VON JOHNSON,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
versus
ATTORNEY GENERAL THURBERT E. BAKER,
JAMES E. DONALD,
JACQUELINE BUNN,
FRED BURNETTE,
PAT ETHEREDGE, et al.,
Defendants-Appellees.
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Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Southern District of Georgia
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(October 20, 2008)
Before CARNES, BARKETT and PRYOR, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:
Aaron Le Von Johnson, a state prisoner, appeals the dismissal of his
complaint. See
42 U.S.C. § 1983. The district court dismissed for lack of subject
matter jurisdiction Johnson’s collateral attack of the judgment of a state court. We
affirm.
We review de novo an issue of subject matter jurisdiction. Goodman ex. rel.
Goodman v. Sipos,
259 F.3d 1327, 1331 (11th Cir. 2001). Under the Rooker-
Feldman doctrine, an inferior federal court lacks subject matter jurisdiction to
review either a final judgment of a state court or issues “inextricably intertwined”
with that judgment. District of Columbia Ct. of App. v. Feldman,
460 U.S. 462,
486,
103 S. Ct. 1303, 1317 (1983); Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co.,
263 U.S. 413,
415–16,
44 S. Ct. 149, 150 (1923). An issue is “inextricably intertwined” with a
judgment of a state court when a complaint “succeeds only to the extent that the
state court wrongly decided the issues before it.” Siegel v. LePore,
234 F.3d 1163,
1172 (11th Cir. 2000) (en banc).
For Johnson to succeed, a federal court would have to find an error in the
judgment of the state court. Johnson complains that prosecutors violated his rights
when they submitted a proposed order that contained allegedly false statements and
conspired to have a state judge sign that order. Johnson’s complaint about that
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signed order could have been raised in the state courts. The district court correctly
dismissed Johnson’s complaint based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine.
AFFIRMED.
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