UNPUBLISHED

                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                        FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT


                               No. 00-6538



UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                                                Plaintiff - Appellee,

          versus


OLADAYO OLADOKUN,

                                               Defendant - Appellant.



Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
Maryland, at Greenbelt. Alexander Williams, Jr., District Judge.
(CR-96-285, CA-99-1886-AW)


Submitted:   August 29, 2000              Decided:   September 7, 2000


Before WIDENER, WILLIAMS, and MOTZ, Circuit Judges.


Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.


Marcia Gail Shein, LAW OFFICE OF MARCIA G. SHEIN, P.C., Decatur,
Georgia, for Appellant.   Jan Paul Miller, OFFICE OF THE UNITED
STATES ATTORNEY, Greenbelt, Maryland, for Appellee.


Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

     Oladayo Oladokun seeks to appeal the district court’s order

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

2000).   We have reviewed the record and the district court’s opin-

ion and find no reversible error.    Accordingly, we deny a certif-

icate of appealability and dismiss the appeal on the reasoning of

the district court. See United States v. Oladokun, Nos. CR-96-285;

CA-99-1886-AW (D. Md. Feb. 16, 2000).*      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




     *
       Although the district court’s order is marked as “filed” on
February 14, 2000, the district court’s record shows that it was
entered on the docket sheet on February 16, 2000.       Pursuant to
Rules 58 and 79(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, we take
the date that the judgment or order was entered on the docket sheet
as the effective date of the district court’s decision. See Wilson
v. Murray, 

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


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