Williams v. Bell ( 2002 )

UNPUBLISHED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Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.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Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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.
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