                   UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                        For the Fifth Circuit

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                             No. 00-60325
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                           RONALD ESTELLE,

                                              Petitioner-Appellant,

                               VERSUS


                          ROBERT L. JOHNSON
         COMMISSIONER, MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

                                               Respondent-Appellee.

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  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern
           District of Mississippi, Southern Division
                          1:96-CV-159-GG
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                         January 11, 2002
Before KING, Chief Judge, and HIGGINBOTHAM and DAVIS, Circuit

Judges.

PER CURIAM:1

     After a thorough review of the record and the briefs of the

parties, we agree with the district court that this 28 U.S.C. §

2254 habeas corpus petition is procedurally barred by MISS. CODE ANN.

§ 99-39-5(2). The district court judgment dismissing this petition

is therefore



     1
      Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the Court has determined that
this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except
under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.
AFFIRMED.
