US v. Jermol Chin
Filing
920100625
UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 10-6117
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff Appellee, v. JERMOL CHIN, Defendant Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore. William D. Quarles, Jr., District Judge. (1:06-cr-00552-WDQ-1; 1:09-cv-2317-WDQ)
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Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Jermol Chin, Appellant Pro Se. Rod J. Rosenstein, United States Attorney, Debra Lynn Dwyer, Assistant United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM: Jermol Chin seeks to appeal the district court's order denying motion. judge relief on his 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 (West Supp. 2009)
The order is not appealable unless a circuit justice or 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 of a
substantial
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. and conclude that we Slack,
We have independently reviewed the record Chin has Chin's not made the for requisite a showing. of
Accordingly,
deny
motions
certificate
appealability and dismiss the appeal.
We dispense with oral
2
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
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