Williams v. Bell

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• Decided: June 21, 2002
• Docket: 02-6040
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 02-6040

ANTONIO F. WILLIAMS,

Petitioner - Appellant,

versus

MICHAEL T. W. BELL,

Respondent - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at Raleigh. James C. Fox, Senior District Judge. (CA-00-372-5-3F)

Submitted: May 10, 2002 Decided: June 21, 2002

Before NIEMEYER and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Antonio F. Williams, Appellant Pro Se. Clarence Joe DelForge, III, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF NORTH CAROLINA, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

Antonio F. Williams seeks to appeal the district court’s order

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

1994 & Supp. 2001). We have reviewed the record and the district

court’s opinion accepting the recommendation of the magistrate

judge and find no reversible error.* Accordingly, we deny a

certificate of appealability and dismiss the appeal on the

reasoning of the district court. Williams v. Bell, No. CA-00-372-

5-3F (E.D.N.C. Dec. 18, 2001). We dispense with oral argument

because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in

the materials before the court and argument would not aid the

decisional process.

DISMISSED

* We note that Williams’s objections to the report of the magistrate judge were timely under 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1) (1994). Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266 (1988). We have considered the objections and the points raised in Williams’s informal brief to this court in reaching our decision.