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                 United States Court of Appeals
                     For the First Circuit

No. 97-1717

                          UNITED STATES,

                            Appellee,

                                v.

                        CHRISTOPHER ESSOR,

                      Defendant, Appellant.

           APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

                 FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND

       [Hon. Francis J. Boyle, Senior U.S. District Judge]

                              Before

                     Selya, Stahl and Lynch,
                        Circuit Judges.
                                
                                

     Edward C. Roy and Roy & Cook on brief for appellant.
     Margaret E. Curran, United States Attorney, and Ira Belkin,
Assistant United States Attorney, on brief for appellee.
     

September 11, 1998

                                
                                

                                                    Per Curiam.  Upon careful review of the briefs and
    record, we conclude that this appeal presents no substantial
    question and that oral argument is not warranted.  The district
    court clearly understood its authority and expressly exercised
    its discretion not to depart at all, in light of defendant's
    particular combination of positive (assistance to the
    government) and negative (under-represented criminal record)
    circumstances.  We have no jurisdiction to review such a
    discretionary denial of a downward departure.  Accordingly, we
    do not consider defendant's contention that the district
    court's analysis of the positive circumstances was
    insufficiently detailed.
              Affirmed.  See 1st Cir. Loc. R. 27.1.