Daniel Kinard v. Terry O'Brien
Filing
920081020
Opinion
UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 08-7047
DANIEL W. KINARD, Petitioner Appellant, v. TERRY O'BRIEN, Respondent Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, at Roanoke. Jackson L. Kiser, Senior District Judge. (7:07-CV-00601-jlk-mfu)
Submitted:
October 14, 2008
Decided:
October 20, 2008
Before KING, GREGORY, and AGEE, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Daniel W. Kinard, Appellant Pro Se. Thomas Linn Eckert, Assistant United States Attorney, Roanoke, Virginia, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM: Daniel W. Kinard, a prisoner in federal custody
serving a sentence imposed by the District of Columbia, seeks to appeal the district court's order denying relief on his 28
U.S.C. § 2241 (2000) petition. unless a circuit justice or
The order is not appealable judge issues a certificate of
appealability. United 2002). States
28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1) (2000); see Madley v. Parole Comm'n, 278 F.3d 1306, 1310 (D.C. Cir.
A certificate of appealability will not issue absent "a
substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right." 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) (2000). A prisoner satisfies this
standard by demonstrating that reasonable jurists would find any assessment of the constitutional claims by the district court is debatable or wrong, and any dispositive procedural ruling by the district court is likewise debatable. Miller-El v. Cockrell,
537 U.S. 322, 336-38 (2003); Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000); Rose v. Lee, 252 F.3d 676, 683-84 (4th Cir. 2001). We have independently reviewed the record and conclude that
Kinard has not made the requisite showing. a certificate with of appealability argument and
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