United States of America v. SAMUEL ROBERT QUEEN, JR., a/k/a Fat Sammy

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 00-6920
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
versus
SAMUEL ROBERT QUEEN, JR., a/k/a Fat Sammy,
Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
Maryland, at Baltimore. Walter E. Black, Jr., Senior District
Judge. (CR-93-369, CA-97-2980-B)
Submitted: May 17, 2001 Decided: May 22, 2001
Before WIDENER, NIEMEYER, and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Samuel Robert Queen, Jr., Appellant Pro Se. Roann Nichols, OFFICE
OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Baltimore, Maryland; Barbara Suzanne
Skalla, Assistant United States Attorney, Greenbelt, Maryland, for
Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).

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* We recently held in United States v. Sanders, F.3d ,
2001 WL 369719 (4th Cir. Apr. 13, 2001) (No. 00-6281), that the new
rule announced in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000), is
not retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review.
Accordingly, Queen’s Apprendi claim is not cognizable.
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PER CURIAM:
Samuel Robert Queen, Jr., appeals the district court’s orders
denying his motion filed under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 (West Supp.
2000), and denying his motion for reconsideration. We have re-
viewed the record and the district court’s opinions and find no
reversible error. Accordingly, we deny Queen’s motion for a cer-
tificate of appealability and dismiss the appeal substantially on
the reasoning of the district court. * United States v. Queen, Nos.
CR-93-369; CA-97-2980-B (D. Md. May 13, 1999 & May 18, 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

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