US v. Floyd Junior Powell
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UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Originating case number: 5:99-cr-00012-RLV-6,5:12-cv-00108-RJC Copies to all parties and the district court/agency. [999115157]. Mailed to: Powell. [13-6515]
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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 13-6515
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
v.
FLOYD JUNIOR POWELL, a/k/a Dick,
Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western
District of North Carolina, at Statesville.
Robert J. Conrad,
Jr., Chief District Judge. (5:99-cr-00012-RLV-6; 5:12-cv-00108RJC)
Submitted:
May 8, 2013
Decided:
May 24, 2013
Before NIEMEYER, KING, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Floyd Junior Powell, Appellant Pro Se.
William A. Brafford,
Assistant United States Attorney, Charlotte, North Carolina; Amy
Elizabeth Ray, Assistant United States Attorney, Asheville,
North Carolina; Adam Christopher Morris, Craig Darren Randall,
OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Charlotte, North Carolina,
for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
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PER CURIAM:
Floyd
Junior
Powell
seeks
to
appeal
the
district
court’s order treating his motion for relief under 28 U.S.C.
§ 1651 (2006) as a successive 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 (West Supp.
2012) motion, and dismissing it on that basis.
appealable
unless
a
circuit
certificate of appealability.
A
certificate
of
justice
The order is not
or
judge
issues
a
28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(B) (2006).
appealability
will
not
issue
absent
“a
substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right.”
28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) (2006).
relief
on
the
demonstrating
district
merits,
that
court’s
debatable
or
a
When the district court denies
prisoner
reasonable
assessment
wrong.
Slack
satisfies
jurists
this
would
of
the
v.
McDaniel,
standard
find
U.S.
that
the
claims
constitutional
529
by
is
473,
484
(2000); see Miller-El v. 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
claim of the denial of a constitutional right.
a
debatable
Slack, 529 U.S.
at 484-85.
We have independently reviewed the record and conclude
that Powell has not made the requisite showing.
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Accordingly, we
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deny a certificate of appealability and dismiss the appeal.
We dispense with oral argument because the facts and
legal
before
contentions
this
court
are
adequately
and
argument
presented
would
not
in
aid
the
the
materials
decisional
process.
DISMISSED
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