                            UNPUBLISHED

                   UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                       FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT


                            No. 04-6808



ROBERT HOLLAND KOON,

                                           Petitioner - Appellant,

          versus


STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA; CHARLES MOLONY
CONDON, South Carolina Attorney General,

                                          Respondents - Appellees.



Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Anderson.   C. Weston Houck, Senior District
Judge. (CA-01-3397-8)


Submitted:   September 9, 2004        Decided:   September 15, 2004


Before WILKINSON, MICHAEL, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.


Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.


Robert Holland Koon, Appellant Pro Se. Donald John Zelenka, Chief
Deputy Attorney General, William Edgar Salter, III, OFFICE OF THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Columbia, South Carolina, for
Appellees.


Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:

          Robert Holland Koon seeks to appeal the district court’s

order dismissing without prejudice his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2000)

petition pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(2).        The district

court’s order stemmed from Koon’s request that the court dismiss

his petition without prejudice in order to allow him to exhaust his

state remedies.

          A Rule 41(a)(2) voluntary dismissal without prejudice is

not appealable.    See Unioil, Inc. v. E.F. Hutton & Co., 809 F.2d

548, 555 (9th Cir. 1986) (holding that a plaintiff generally may

not appeal a voluntary dismissal without prejudice because it is

not an involuntary adverse judgment against him), overruled in part

on other grounds by Moore v. Keegan Mgmt. Co., 78 F.3d 431, 434-35

(9th Cir. 1995).

          Accordingly, we deny Koon’s motion for appointment of

counsel, deny a certificate of appealability, and dismiss the

appeal. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal

contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the

court and argument would not aid the decisional process.



                                                           DISMISSED




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