US v. Latonya Davi

Filing

UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Originating case number: 0:04-cr-00898-JFA-2,0:14-cv-02739-JFA Copies to all parties and the district court/agency. [999612943]. Mailed to: Latonya Davis. [15-6326]

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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 15-6326

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
v.
LATONYA RENEE DAVIS, a/k/a Pooh,
Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Rock Hill.
Joseph F. Anderson, Jr., Senior
District Judge. (0:04-cr-00898-JFA-2; 0:14-cv-02739-JFA)

Submitted:

June 29, 2015

Decided:

July 1, 2015

Before MOTZ, KING, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Latonya Renee Davis, Appellant Pro Se.
Denise Haynes, Assistant United States
South Carolina, for Appellee.

Beth Drake, Stacey
Attorneys, Columbia,

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Latonya Renee Davis seeks to appeal the district court’s
order dismissing as untimely her 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (2012) motion.
The order is not appealable unless a circuit justice or judge
issues

a

certificate

§ 2253(c)(1)(B) (2012).
issue

absent

“a

of

appealability.

U.S.C.

A certificate of appealability will not

substantial

constitutional right.”

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showing

of

the

denial

28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) (2012).

of

a

When the

district court denies relief on the merits, a prisoner satisfies
this

standard

by

demonstrating

that

reasonable

jurists

would

find that the district court’s assessment of the constitutional
claims is debatable or wrong.

Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473,

484

Cockrell,

(2000);

(2003).

see

Miller-El

v.

537

U.S.

322,

336-38

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 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
Davis has not made the requisite showing.
a

certificate

dispense

with

of

appealability

oral

argument

and

dismiss

because

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Accordingly, we deny

the

the

appeal.

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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