Charles Smith v. Gene Johnson
Filing
920090911
UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 09-6660
CHARLES JERALL SMITH, Petitioner - Appellant, v. GENE M. JOHNSON, Respondent - Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Richmond. M. Hannah Lauck, Magistrate Judge. (3:05-cv-00196-MHL)
Submitted:
August 21, 2009
Decided:
September 11, 2009
Before MOTZ, KING, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Charles Jerall Smith, Appellant Pro Se. Karen Geneva Misbach, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF VIRGINIA, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM: Charles Jerall Smith seeks to appeal the magistrate judge's order treating his Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) motion as a successive 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2006) petition, and dismissing it on that basis. * justice or judge The order is not appealable unless a circuit issues a certificate of appealability. 28
U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1) (2006); Reid v. Angelone, 369 F.3d 363, 369 (4th Cir. 2004). A certificate of appealability will not issue
absent "a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right." this find 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) (2006). by demonstrating court's that A prisoner satisfies jurists would
standard the
reasonable of the
district any
assessment procedural 537
constitutional debatable 336-38 or
claims, wrong.
and
dispositive v.
ruling, 322,
Miller-El
Cockrell,
U.S.
(2003);
Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000); Rose v. Lee, 252 F.3d 676, 683-85 the (4th Cir. 2001). We Smith we deny have has a independently not made the of
reviewed requisite
record
and
conclude
showing.
Accordingly,
certificate
appealability and dismiss the appeal. Additionally, we construe Smith's notice of appeal and informal brief as an application to file a second or successive
The parties consented to have the case decided by magistrate judge in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) (2006).
*
a
2
petition
under
28
U.S.C.
§
2244
(2006).
United
States
v.
Winestock, 340 F.3d 200, 208 (4th Cir. 2003).
In order to
obtain authorization to file a successive § 2254 petition, a prisoner must assert claims based on either: constitutional law that was previously (1) a new rule of and made
unavailable
retroactive by the Supreme Court to cases on collateral review; or (2) newly discovered evidence that was not previously
discoverable by due diligence and that would be sufficient to establish by clear and convincing evidence that, but for
constitutional error, no reasonable factfinder would have found the petitioner guilty of the offense. (2006). 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)
Smith's claims do not satisfy either of these criteria.
Therefore, we deny authorization to file a successive § 2254 petition. 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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