US v. Karlheinz Wood
Filing
UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Originating case number: 7:10-cr-00070-SGW-RSB-2, 7:12-80479-SGW-RSB. Copies to all parties and the district court/agency. [999074232]. Mailed to: Karlheinz Wood. [12-8085]
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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 12-8085
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff – Appellee,
v.
KARLHEINZ ANTHONY WOOD,
Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western
District of Virginia, at Roanoke.
Samuel G. Wilson, District
Judge. (7:10-cr-00070-SGW-RSB-2; 7:12-80479-SGW-RSB)
Submitted:
March 26, 2013
Decided:
March 28, 2013
Before DUNCAN, FLOYD, and THACKER, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Karlheinz Anthony Wood, Appellant Pro Se. Ronald Andrew
Bassford, Craig Jon Jacobson, Assistant United States Attorneys,
Roanoke, Virginia, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
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PER CURIAM:
Karlheinz Anthony Wood seeks to appeal the district
court’s order denying relief on his 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 (West
Supp.
2012)
motion.
The
order
is
not
appealable
unless
a
circuit justice or judge issues a certificate of appealability.
28
U.S.C.
§ 2253(c)(1)(B)
(2006).
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 motion 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 Wood has not made the requisite showing.
Accordingly, we
deny a certificate of appealability and dismiss the appeal.
dispense
with
oral
argument
because
2
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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