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             United States Court of Appeals
                 For the First Circuit

No. 98-1713

                      UNITED STATES,

                        Appellee,

                            v.

                   LUIS MORO-HERNANDEZ,

                  Defendant, Appellant.

       APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

             FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

     [Hon. Daniel R. Domnguez, U.S. District Judge]

                          Before

                  Stahl, Circuit Judge,
             Coffin, Senior Circuit Judge,
               and Lipez, Circuit Judge.

 Edgar R. Vega Pabon on brief for appellant.
 Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, Jose A. Quiles-
Espinosa, Senior Litigation Counsel, and Camille Velez-Rive,
Assistant United States Attorney, on brief for appellee.

October 19, 1998

                                      Per Curiam.  Upon careful review of the briefs and
record, we conclude that the district court properly
interpreted U.S.S.G.  4A1.1(d) in calculating defendant's
criminal history category.  
          Defendant's prior diversionary disposition was
properly "counted as a sentence" under  4A1.2(f).  It follows
that the diversionary disposition was "a sentence countable
under  4A1.2."  Therefore the diversionary disposition was a
"criminal justice sentence" for purposes of  4A1.1(d),
application note 4.  We find no merit in defendant's argument
that the plain words of the application note should be read
otherwise.  And because the instant offense was committed while
defendant was under that diversionary disposition, the district
court properly applied  4A1.1(d) to add two points to
defendant's criminal history score.
          Affirmed.  See 1st Cir. Loc. R. 27.1.