Russell Montgomery v. McKither Bodison
Filing
920100528
UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 10-6230
RUSSELL MONTGOMERY, Petitioner - Appellant, v. MCKITHER BODISON, Respondent - Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Greenville. Henry M. Herlong Jr., Senior District Judge. (6:09-cv-00778-HMH)
Submitted:
May 20, 2010
Decided:
May 28, 2010
Before WILKINSON, NIEMEYER, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Russell Montgomery, Appellant Pro Se. Donald John Zelenka, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Melody Jane Brown, Assistant Attorney General, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM: Russell court's judge order and Montgomery the seeks to appeal of the the § district magistrate (2006)
accepting
recommendation his 28
denying
relief
on
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 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 petition 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 Montgomery has not made the requisite showing. Accordingly, we deny a certificate of appealability and dismiss the appeal. We dispense with oral argument because the facts
and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials
2
before
the
court
and
argument
would
not
aid
the
decisional
process. DISMISSED
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