July 29, 1996

                                [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]



                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT







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        No. 95-2183



                                RASHAD AKEEM RASHEED,



                                Petitioner, Appellant,



                                          v.



                                    RONALD DUVAL,



                                Respondent, Appellee.





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                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT



                          FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS



                   [Hon. Douglas P. Woodlock, U.S. District Judge]
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                                        Before



                                Torruella, Chief Judge,
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                            Cyr and Stahl, Circuit Judges.
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            Rashad Akeem Rasheed on brief pro se.
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            Scott  Harshbarger,   Attorney  General,  and   Ellyn  H.   Lazar,
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        Assistant Attorney General, on brief for appellee.





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                 Per Curiam.   We have  carefully reviewed the  record in
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            this case.  Essentially for the reasons given by the district



            court  in its memorandum and order, dated August 28, 1995, we



            affirm the dismissal of the  petition.  Petitioner has failed



            to show  any external cause which prevented  him from raising



            his present  claim when he  filed his earlier  federal habeas



            petition in 1993.   Nor has he shown that failure  to address



            the  merits  of  his  claim  will  result  in  a  fundamental



            miscarriage of justice.1
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                 Affirmed.
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               1While  this case  was  pending on  appeal, the  President
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            signed into law the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty

            Act  of  1996, Pub.  L. 104-132,  110  Stat. 1214  (April 24,

            1996).   We need not decide  in this case whether  any of the

            amendments  in the  Act apply  since it  would not  alter our

            disposition.



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