*1 Before GRUENDER, MURPHY, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

____________ PER CURIAM.

*2 Missouri inmate Robert Dinkins appeals the district court’s entry of judgment ^[1] in favor of defendants following an adverse jury verdict in his civil action. Having jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, this court affirms, and rejects Dinkins’s claims as meritless.

The judgment is affirmed. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.

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[1] The Honorable Matt Jeffrey Whitworth, United States Magistrate Judge for the Western District of Missouri, to whom the case was referred for final disposition by consent of the parties pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c). -2-