Anthony Taylor v. Cecilia Reynolds

Filing 920081020

Opinion

UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 08-7053

ANTHONY R. TAYLOR, a/k/a Tony Red, Petitioner - Appellant, v. CECILIA REYNOLDS, Warden, Respondent - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Greenville. Henry M. Herlong, Jr., District Judge. (6:07-cv-01814-HMH)

Submitted:

October 14, 2008

Decided:

October 20, 2008

Before KING, GREGORY, and AGEE, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Anthony R. Taylor, Appellant Pro Se. Melody Jane Brown, Assistant Attorney General, Donald John Zelenka, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

PER CURIAM: Anthony R. Taylor seeks to appeal the district court's orders denying relief on his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2000) petition and his motion for a reconsideration. circuit justice See 28 The or orders judge are issues not a

appealable certificate (2000).

unless of

appealability.

U.S.C.

§ 2253(c)(1)

A certificate of appealability will not issue absent "a

substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right." 28 U.S.C. by § 2253(c)(2) (2000). that A prisoner satisfies would this find

standard

demonstrating

reasonable

jurists

that any assessment of the constitutional claims by the district court is debatable or wrong and that any dispositive procedural ruling by the district court is likewise debatable. See

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 record (4th and Cir. 2001). that We have independently not made reviewed the the

conclude

Taylor

has

requisite

showing.

Accordingly, we deny a certificate of appealability

and dismiss the appeal.

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We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal before contentions the court are and adequately argument presented not in aid the the materials decisional

would

process. DISMISSED

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