Bernard Bagley v. Cecilia Reynold

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UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Originating case number: 5:11-cv-02664-TLW Copies to all parties and the district court/agency. [999050257]. Mailed to: Bernard Bagley. [12-7822]

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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 12-7822

BERNARD BAGLEY,
Petitioner - Appellant,
v.
CECILIA REYNOLDS, Warden,
Respondent – Appellee,
and
SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PROBATION, PAROLE, AND PARDON
SERVICES,
Respondent.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Orangeburg. Terry L. Wooten, Chief District
Judge. (5:11-cv-02664-TLW)

Submitted:

February 21, 2013

Before AGEE and
Circuit Judge.

DAVIS,

Circuit

Decided: February 25, 2013

Judges,

and

HAMILTON,

Senior

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Bernard Bagley, Appellant Pro Se.
Tommy Evans, Jr., SOUTH
CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PROBATION, PAROLE & PARDON SERVICES,
Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.

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Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Bernard Bagley, a state prisoner, seeks to appeal the
district

court’s

order

accepting

the

recommendation

of

the

magistrate judge and denying relief on his 28 U.S.C.A. § 2241
(West 2006 & Supp. 2012) petition.
unless

a

circuit

appealability.

justice

or

The order is not appealable

judge

issues

a

28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(A) (2006).

certificate

of

A certificate

of appealability will not issue absent “a substantial showing of
the denial of a constitutional right.”
(2006).

28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2)

When the district court denies relief on the merits, a

prisoner

satisfies

this

jurists

would

reasonable

standard
find

by

that

demonstrating

the

district

that

court’s

assessment of the constitutional claims is debatable or wrong.
Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000); see Miller-El v.
Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 336-38 (2003).
denies

relief

demonstrate

on

both

procedural

that

the

When the district court

grounds,

dispositive

the

prisoner

procedural

must

ruling

is

debatable, and that the petition states a debatable claim of the
denial of a constitutional right.

Slack, 529 U.S. at 484-85.

We have independently reviewed the record and conclude
that Bagley has not made the requisite showing.

Accordingly, we

deny a certificate of appealability and dismiss the appeal.
dispense

with

oral

argument

because

3

the

facts

and

We

legal

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presented

in

the

materials

before

this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED

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