IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

No. 99-40194 Summary Calendar

JUAN MANUEL GUZMAN, Petitioner-Appellant, versus GARY L. JOHNSON, DIRECTOR, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION, Respondent-Appellee.

-------------------- Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas USDC No. L-94-CV-165 -------------------- November 3, 1999 Before KING, Chief Judge, and HIGGINBOTHAM and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:* Juan Manuel Guzman, Texas state prisoner #533076, appeals from the district court’s denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Guzman argues that he was denied his constitutional right to confront the State’s key witness because the State had improperly expunged the witness’s criminal record in exchange for the witness’s testimony, that the state trial court had improperly limited his cross-examination of the witness, that he was unconstitutionally * Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR. R. 47.5.4.

No. 99-40194 -2- deprived of an adequate record of the state-trial-court proceedings, and that he received ineffective assistance of counsel because his attorney failed to perfect a bill of exception with regard to the witness’s expected testimony. We have reviewed the record and find no reversible error.

Accordingly, the judgment of the trial court is AFFIRMED.

AFFIRMED.