
USCA1 Opinion

	




        June 10, 1994           [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT                                 ____________________        No. 93-2090                                 BENITO GUTIERREZ-DIAZ,                                Plaintiff, Appellant,                                          v.                              UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                                 Defendant, Appellee.                                 ____________________                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT                           FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO                    [Hon. Hector M. Laffitte, U.S. District Judge]                                              ___________________                                 ____________________                                        Before                             Torruella, Boudin and Stahl,                                   Circuit Judges.                                   ______________                                 ____________________            Benito Gutierrez-Diaz on brief pro se.            _____________________            Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, and Fidel  A. Sevillano Del            _____________                              _______________________        Rio, Assistant United States Attorney, on brief for appellee.        ___                                 ____________________                                 ____________________                      Per Curiam.   After carefully reviewing the  record                      __________            and the  briefs of the parties, we affirm the judgment of the            district  court for  essentially  the reasons  stated in  its            careful and well-reasoned Opinion and Order, dated August 11,            1993.  We only add that, upon the facts alleged by appellant,            the court  did not  err in  failing to hold  a hearing.   See                                                                      ___            Shraiar v. United States,  736 F.2d 817, 818 (1st  Cir. 1984)            _______    _____________            (per curiam).                      Affirmed.                      ________                                         -2-
