Kenneth Rivera v. Sergeant Leonard, No. 16-6892 (4th Cir. 2016)

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UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 16-6892 KENNETH RIVERA, a/k/a Kenneth Syncere Rivera, a/k/a Kenneth D. Rivera, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. SERGEANT LEONARD; OFFICER PONDER, Defendants – Appellees, and SCOTTY BODIFORD, Defendant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Orangeburg. David C. Norton, District Judge. (5:15-cv-01191-DCN) Submitted: December 20, 2016 Decided: December 22, 2016 Before GREGORY, Chief Judge, and WYNN and FLOYD, Circuit Judges. Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Kenneth Rivera, Appellant GIBBES & BURTON, LLC, Appellees. Pro Se. Stephanie Spartanburg, South Holmes Burton, Carolina, for Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. 2 PER CURIAM: Kenneth Rivera appeals the district court’s order accepting the recommendation of the magistrate judge and denying relief on his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (2012) complaint. record and find no reversible error. We have reviewed the Accordingly, we affirm for the reasons stated by the district court. Rivera v. Leonard, No. 5:15-cv-01191-DCN (D.S.C. June 17, 2016). We dispense with oral contentions argument adequately because presented in the the facts and materials legal before this court are and argument would not aid the decisional process. AFFIRMED 3

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