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820 F.2d 1220

Docket No. 87-6543.

Michael Lee Thomas v. Warden, Maryland House of Correction

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

Submitted April 29, 1987. Decided June 9, 1987.

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Smith v. C.I.R.

Opinion by Per Curiam ·

NOTICE: Fourth Circuit I.O.P. 36.6 states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Fourth Circuit.

Before ERVIN, CHAPMAN and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges.

Michael Lee Thomas, appellant pro se.

Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, Valerie W. Lofton, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

PER CURIAM:

¶1

A review of the record and the district court's opinion discloses that an appeal from its order refusing habeas corpus relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2254 would be without merit. Because the dispositive issues recently have been decided authoritatively, we deny a certificate of probable cause to appeal, dispense with oral argument, and dismiss the appeal on the reasoning of the district court. Thomas v. Warden, C/A No. 86-2540-JFM (D.Md., Jan. 13, 1987).

¶2

DISMISSED.

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