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No. 96-3812EM _____________

Earl McAfee, * * Plaintiff-Appellant, * * v. * * Simon Risk, Individually and as * Appeal from the United States a Police Officer; James Whyte, * District Court for the Eastern Individually and as a Police * District of Missouri. Officer; * * [UNPUBLISHED] Defendants-Appellees, * * City of St. Louis, * * Defendant. * _____________

Submitted: February 4, 1997

Filed: February 10, 1997 _____________

Before McMILLIAN, FAGG, and LOKEN, Circuit Judge. _____________

PER CURIAM.

Earl McAfee appeals the district court's judgment entered on an adverse jury verdict in McAfee's civil rights action. McAfee neither provided a trial transcript nor requested one at government expense. To the extent discernible, McAfee's claims of error relate to matters of evidence and purported judicial bias and are not subject to meaningful review without a trial transcript. See Fed. R. App. P. 10(b) (duty of appellant to order transcript); Meroney v. Delta Int'l Mach. Corp., 18 F.3d 1436, 1437 (8th Cir. 1994); Schmid v. United Bhd. of Carpenters & Joiners, 827 F.2d 384, 386 (8th Cir. 1987) (per curiam), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 1071 (1988). We thus dismiss McAfee's appeal. A true copy.

Attest:

CLERK, U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, EIGHTH CIRCUIT.

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