US v. Daryl Barley

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UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Originating case numbers: 4:10-cr-00010-JLK-RSB-1, 4:12-cv-80417-JLK-RSB. Copies to all parties and the district court/agency. [999180094]. Mailed to: Daryl Barley. [13-6525]

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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 13-6525

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
v.
DARYL WENDELL BARLEY, a/k/a Black,
Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western
District of Virginia, at Danville.
Jackson L. Kiser, Senior
District Judge.
(4:10-cr-00010-JLK-RSB-1; 4:12-cv-80417-JLKRSB)

Submitted:

August 22, 2013

Decided: August 26, 2013

Before MOTZ, DIAZ, and FLOYD, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Daryl Wendell Barley, Appellant Pro Se.
Donald Ray Wolthuis,
Assistant
United
States
Attorney,
Roanoke,
Virginia,
for
Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Daryl

Wendell

Barley

seeks

to

appeal

the

district

court’s order denying relief on his 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 (West
Supp.

2013)

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 Barley 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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