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UNPUBLISHED

                   UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                       FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                             No. 99-6309

RICHARD JOHNSON, JR.,

                                           Petitioner - Appellant,

          versus

RONALD J. ANGELONE, Director, Department of
Corrections,

                                            Respondent - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern Dis-
trict of Virginia, at Richmond. David G. Lowe, Magistrate Judge.
(CA-98-756-3)

Submitted:   June 17, 1999                 Decided:   June 24, 1999

Before MURNAGHAN and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior
Circuit Judge.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Richard Johnson, Jr., Appellant Pro Se. Richard Bain Smith, Assis-
tant Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

     Richard Johnson, Jr., seeks to appeal the magistrate judge’s*

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

(West 1994 & Supp. 1999).    We have reviewed the record and the

magistrate judge’s opinion and find no reversible error.    Accord-

ingly, we deny Johnson’s motion for a certificate of appealability

and dismiss the appeal on the reasoning of the magistrate judge.

See Johnson v. Angelone, No. CA-98-756-3 (E.D. Va. Feb. 16, 1999).

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

     *
       The parties consented to the jurisdiction of a magistrate
judge under 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) (1994).

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