UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 99-6502
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
versus
MICHAEL SNIPE,
Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern Dis-
trict of Virginia, at Norfolk. J. Calvitt Clarke, Jr., Senior Dis-
trict Judge. (CR-91-9-N, CA-97-396-2)
Submitted: July 22, 1999 Decided: July 28, 1999
Before ERVIN, HAMILTON, and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Michael Snipe, Appellant Pro Se. Robert Joseph Seidel, Jr., Assis-
tant United States Attorney, Norfolk, Virginia, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:
Michael Snipe seeks to appeal the district court’s order deny-
ing his motion filed under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 (West Supp. 1999).
Snipe raised two issues in the district court; he raised entirely
new claims on appeal. Snipe forfeited the issues raised in the
district court by not raising them on appeal. See 4th Cir. R.
34(b). The arguments made to this court in Snipe’s informal brief
are not cognizable because they were not raised in the district
court. See Muth v. United States, 1 F.3d 246, 250 (4th Cir. 1993).
Accordingly, we deny a certificate of appealability and dismiss
this appeal. 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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