US v. Donnell Taylor
Filing
920100625
UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 10-4154
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff Appellee, v. DONNELL ALEXANDER TAYLOR, a/k/a Juice, Defendant Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, at Charlotte. Frank D. Whitney, District Judge. (3:05-cr-00297-FDW-DCK-1; 3:09-cv-00089-FDW)
Submitted:
June 17, 2010
Decided:
June 25, 2010
Before MOTZ and Circuit Judge.
KING,
Circuit
Judges,
and
HAMILTON,
Senior
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Donnell Alexander Taylor, Appellant Pro Se. C. Nicks Williams, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Charlotte, North Carolina, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM: Donnell Alexander Taylor seeks to appeal the district court's order denying relief on his 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255
(West Supp. 2010) motion.
The order is not appealable unless a
circuit justice or judge 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) (2006). When the
district court denies relief on the merits, a prisoner satisfies this standard by demonstrating that reasonable jurists would
find that the district court's assessment of the constitutional claims is debatable or wrong. 484 (2000); see Miller-El v. Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 336-38
(2003).
When the district court denies relief on procedural
grounds, the prisoner must demonstrate both that the dispositive procedural ruling is debatable, and that the motion states a debatable claim of the denial of a constitutional right. 529 U.S. at 484-85. Slack,
We have independently reviewed the record
and conclude that Taylor has not made the requisite showing. Accordingly, we deny Taylor's motion for appointment of counsel, deny a certificate of appealability, and dismiss the appeal. dispense with oral argument because the facts and We
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contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED
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