US v. Deron Jone

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UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Originating case number: 1:05-cr-00076-JPJ-RSB-1,1:12-cv-80543-JPJ-RSB Copies to all parties and the district court/agency. [999474172]. Mailed to: Deron Jones. [14-7081]

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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 14-7081

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
v.
DERON FITZGERALD JONES,
Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western
District of Virginia, at Abingdon.
James P. Jones, District
Judge. (1:05-cr-00076-JPJ-RSB-1; 1:12-cv-80543-JPJ-RSB)

Submitted:

November 10, 2014

Decided:

November 13, 2014

Before MOTZ, KING, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Deron Fitzgerald Jones, Appellant Pro Se.
Jennifer R.
Bockhorst, Zachary T. Lee, Assistant United States Attorneys,
Abingdon, Virginia, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Deron Fitzgerald Jones seeks to appeal the district
court’s orders denying relief on his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (2012)
motion and denying his motion for reconsideration.

The orders

are not appealable unless a circuit justice or judge issues a
certificate of appealability.
A

certificate

of

28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(B) (2012).

appealability

will

not

issue

absent

“a

substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right.”
28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) (2012).
relief

on

the

demonstrating
district

merits,
that

court’s

debatable

or

a

When the district court denies

prisoner

reasonable

assessment

wrong.

satisfies

jurists

would

of

the

v.

McDaniel,

Slack

this

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 Jones 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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