Layton Cunningham v. Roy Cooper, III
Filing
920081231
Opinion
UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 08-7196
LAYTON SHARMALE CUNNINGHAM, Petitioner - Appellant, v. ROY A. COOPER, III, Attorney General of the State of North Carolina; JAMES HARDY, Administrator, Nash Correctional Institution, Nashville, North Carolina, Respondents - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, at Durham. James A. Beaty, Jr., Chief District Judge. (1:07-cv-00295-JAB-PTS)
Submitted:
December 5, 2008
Decided:
December 31, 2008
Before MICHAEL, KING, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Ann Bach Petersen, James R. Glover, GLOVER & PETERSEN, PA, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for Appellant. Clarence Joe DelForge, III, Mary Carla Hollis, Assistant Attorneys General, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellees.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM: Layton district court's Sharmale order Cunningham the seeks to appeal of the the
accepting
recommendation
magistrate judge and denying relief on his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2000) petition. justice or judge The order is not appealable unless a circuit issues a certificate of appealability. 28
U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1) (2000). not issue absent "a
A certificate of appealability will showing of the denial (2000). of a A that the or
substantial 28
constitutional prisoner reasonable
right." this would by
U.S.C. standard
§ 2253(c)(2) by any
satisfies jurists
demonstrating assessment is of
find the
that
constitutional
claims
district
court
debatable
wrong and that 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 Cunningham has not made the requisite showing. certificate dispense of appealability oral argument and Accordingly, we deny a the appeal. and We legal
dismiss the
with
because
facts
contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED 2
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