US v. Bruce Kilgore

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UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Originating case numbers: 8:06-cr-00066-RWT-11, 8:12-cv-00557-RWT. Copies to all parties and the district court. [999651508]. Mailed to: Appellant. [15-6580]

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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 15-6580

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
v.
BRUCE KILGORE,
Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
Maryland, at Greenbelt. Roger W. Titus, Senior District Judge.
(8:06-cr-00066-RWT-11; 8:12-cv-00557-RWT)

Submitted:

August 27, 2015

Decided:

September 1, 2015

Before GREGORY, AGEE, and THACKER, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Bruce Kilgore, Appellant Pro Se.
Elizabeth Dorsey Collery,
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., Lindsay
Eyler Kaplan, Barbara Suzanne Skalla, Assistant United States
Attorneys, Greenbelt, Maryland, Richard Charles Kay, Assistant
United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, Jonathan Allen
Ophardt, Special Assistant United States Attorney, Washington,
D.C., for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Bruce Kilgore seeks to appeal the district court’s order
denying relief on his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (2012) motion.

The order

is 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
Kilgore 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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