
USCA1 Opinion

	




          October 17, 1994                                [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT                                 ____________________        No. 94-1179                                 JAMES WILEY NICHOLS,                                Plaintiff, Appellant,                                          v.                              UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                                 Defendant, Appellee.                                 ____________________                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT                           FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO                     [Hon. Carmen C. Cerezo, U.S. District Judge]                                             ___________________                                 ____________________                                        Before                                Selya, Cyr and Boudin,                                   Circuit Judges.                                   ______________                                 ____________________            James Wiley Nichols on brief pro se.            ___________________            Guillermo  Gil,  United States  Attorney,  and  Juan  A.  Pedrosa,            ______________                                  _________________        Assistant United States Attorney, on brief for appellee.                                 ____________________                                 ____________________                      Per  Curiam.    Petitioner,  James  Wiley  Nichols,                      ___________            appeals  from  the denial  of  his second  petition  under 28            U.S.C.   2255 to  set aside, vacate or correct  his sentence.            For the reasons stated  by the district court, we  affirm its            decision  dismissing the petition as an abuse of the writ and            amending  petitioner's  sentence to  substitute  the term  of            special  parole imposed with a term  of supervised release of            identical length.                      Affirmed.                      ________
