                            UNPUBLISHED

                   UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                       FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT


                            No. 98-6067



SHAWN CRAWFORD ALLEN,

                                           Petitioner - Appellant,

          versus


JOHN JAKE, Acting Warden,

                                            Respondent - Appellee.



Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia, at Richmond. Robert R. Merhige, Jr., Senior
District Judge. (CA-97-598)


Submitted:   July 2, 1998                  Decided:   July 22, 1998


Before NIEMEYER and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges, and HALL, Senior
Circuit Judge.


Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.


Joseph Dee Morrissey, Jonathan Stanley David, MORRISSEY, HERSHNER
& JACOBS, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellant.     Linwood Theodore
Wells, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia, for
Appellee


Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

     Shawn Crawford Allen seeks to appeal the district court’s

order denying relief on his petition filed under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254

(West 1994 & Supp. 1998). We have reviewed the record and the

district court’s opinion and find no reversible error. Accordingly,

we deny a certificate of appealability and dismiss the appeal on

the reasoning of the district court. Allen v. Jake, No. CA-97-598

(E.D. Va. Dec. 9, 1997). We dispense with oral argument because the

facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the mate-

rials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional

process.




                                                         DISMISSED




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