                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

                        FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT


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                             No. 95-30844
                           Summary Calendar
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     ANDREA HALL,

                                         Petitioner-Appellant,

                                versus

     BURL CAIN, Acting Warden,
     Louisiana State Penitentiary,

                                         Respondent-Appellee.

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      Appeal from the United States District Court for the
                  Western District of Louisiana
                           (CA-94-2298)
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                          April 18, 1996

Before SMITH, BENAVIDES, and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:*

     Andrea Hall appeals from the district court's partial denial

of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus.    A

review of the record supports the magistrate judge's finding that,

as to Hall's Louisiana conviction for the attempted second-degree

murder of Joe Lewis Atkins, Hall failed to show that his trial

attorneys' failure to challenge a defective jury instruction was



*
 Pursuant to Local Rule 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opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under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 Local Rule 47.5.4.
prejudicial.   We affirm for the reasons stated by the district

court.   See Hall v. Whitley, No. CV94-2298-A (W.D. La July 21,

1995).




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