Jabari Dozier v. Warden Lee Correctional
Filing
920100308
UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 09-7899
JABARI DOZIER, Petitioner Appellant, v. WARDEN LEE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION, Respondent Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Columbia. Patrick Michael Duffy, District Judge. (3:08-cv-03371-PMD)
Submitted:
February 24, 2010
Decided:
March 8, 2010
Before GREGORY, SHEDD, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Jabari Dozier, Appellant Pro Se. Erin Mary Farrell, Daniel Roy Settana, Jr., MCKAY, CAUTHEN, SETTANA & STUBLEY, PA, Columbia, South Carolina; Donald John Zelenka, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM: Jabari Dozier, a state prisoner, seeks to appeal the district magistrate court's judge order and accepting the on recommendation his 28 U.S.C. of the
denying
relief
§ 2241
(2006) petition. justice or judge
The order is not appealable unless a circuit issues a certificate of appealability.
28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1) (2006).
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). A prisoner
satisfies this standard by demonstrating that reasonable jurists would find 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. Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 336-38 (2003);
Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484-85 (2000); Rose v. Lee, 252 F.3d 676, 683-84 (4th Cir. 2001). We have independently
reviewed the record and conclude that Dozier has not made the requisite showing. Accordingly, we deny a certificate of
appealability and dismiss the appeal.
We also deny Dozier's We dispense
motion seeking a disciplinary hearing transcript.
with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and
argument would not aid the decisional process. DISMISSED 2
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