UNPUBLISHED

                   UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                       FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT


                            No. 99-6333



UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                                               Plaintiff - Appellee,

          versus


GREGG DINARDE PENN,

                                              Defendant - Appellant.



Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle Dis-
trict of North Carolina, at Winston-Salem. Frank W. Bullock, Jr.,
District Judge. (CR-96-175, CA-98-169-1)


Submitted:   October 20, 1999             Decided:   November 3, 1999


Before MURNAGHAN, LUTTIG, and MOTZ, Circuit Judges.


Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.


Gregg Dinarde Penn, Appellant Pro Se. Lisa Blue Boggs, Assistant
United States Attorney, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellee.


Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

     Greg Dinarde Penn seeks to appeal the district court's order

denying his motion filed under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 (West Supp.

1999).   We have reviewed the record and the district court's opin-

ion accepting the recommendation of the magistrate judge and find

no reversible error. Accordingly, we deny a certificate of appeal-

ability and dismiss the appeal on the reasoning of the district

court.     See United States v. Penn, Nos. CR-96-175; CA-98-169-1

(M.D.N.C. Feb. 24, 1999*).   We dispense with oral argument because

the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the ma-

terials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional

process.




                                                         DISMISSED




     *
       Although the district court’s judgment and order is marked
as "filed" on February 23, 1999, the district court's records show
that it was entered on the docket sheet on February 24, 1999.
Pursuant to Rules 58 and 79(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure, it is the date that the judgment or order was entered on
the docket sheet that we take as the effective date of the district
court's decision. See Wilson v. Murray, 

, 1234-35
(4th Cir. 1986).


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