                            UNPUBLISHED

                   UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                       FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT



                            No. 96-6352



NATHANIEL JONES,

                                             Petitioner - Appellant,

          versus

RONALD J. ANGELONE,

                                               Defendant - Appellee.



Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia, at Alexandria. T. S. Ellis, III, District
Judge. (CA-95-793-AM)


Submitted:   January 23, 1997             Decided:   January 31, 1997


Before RUSSELL, WILKINS, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.


Nathaniel Jones, Appellant Pro Se. Thomas Cauthorne Daniel, Assis-
tant Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.


Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

     Appellant seeks to appeal the district court's order denying

relief on his petition filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1994), amended
by Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Pub. L.

No. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1214. We have reviewed the record and the

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

we deny a certificate of probable cause to appeal; to the extent

that a certificate of appealability is required, we deny such a

certificate. We dismiss the appeal on the reasoning of the district
court. Jones v. Angelone, No. CA-95-793-AM (E.D. Va. Feb. 2, 1996).

We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal conten-

tions are adequately presented in the materials before the court

and argument would not aid the decisional process.




                                                         DISMISSED




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