James Pipes v. David Ballard
Filing
920100428
UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 10-6029
JAMES FRANKLIN PIPES, Petitioner Appellant, v. DAVID BALLARD, Warden, Respondent Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, at Elkins. Robert E. Maxwell, Senior District Judge. (2:09-cv-00037-REM-JSK)
Submitted:
April 22, 2010
Decided:
April 28, 2010
Before TRAXLER, Chief Judge, and KING and AGEE, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
James Franklin Pipes, Appellant Pro Se. Deputy Attorney General, Charleston, Appellee.
Dawn Ellen Warfield, West Virginia, for
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM: James court's judge order Franklin accepting Pipes the on seeks to appeal of the the district
recommendation Pipes' 28
magistrate (2006)
and
denying
relief
U.S.C.
§ 2254
petition. or judge
The order is not appealable unless a circuit justice issues a certificate of appealability. 28 U.S.C.
§ 2253(c)(1) (2006). issue absent "a
A certificate of appealability will not showing of the denial A of a
substantial 28
constitutional
right."
U.S.C.
§ 2253(c)(2).
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 Pipes has not made the requisite showing. certificate dispense of Accordingly, we deny Pipes' motion for a and dismiss the the appeal. and We legal
appealability oral argument
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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