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Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 11-6351 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff – Appellee, v. BARBARA CORBY MARTIN, a/k/a Barbara Balsley, Defendant – Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, at Charlottesville. Norman K. Moon, Senior District Judge. (3:05-cr-00028-nkm-1; 3:09-cv-80187-nkm- mfu) Submitted: August 18, 2011 Decided: Septemer 1, 2011 Before TRAXLER, Chief Judge, and NIEMEYER and DUNCAN, Circuit
Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 11-6351 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff – Appellee, v. BARBARA CORBY MARTIN, a/k/a Barbara Balsley, Defendant – Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, at Charlottesville. Norman K. Moon, Senior District Judge. (3:05-cr-00028-nkm-1; 3:09-cv-80187-nkm- mfu) Submitted: August 18, 2011 Decided: Septemer 1, 2011 Before TRAXLER, Chief Judge, and NIEMEYER and DUNCAN, Circuit J..
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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 11-6351
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff – Appellee,
v.
BARBARA CORBY MARTIN, a/k/a Barbara Balsley,
Defendant – Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western
District of Virginia, at Charlottesville. Norman K. Moon,
Senior District Judge. (3:05-cr-00028-nkm-1; 3:09-cv-80187-nkm-
mfu)
Submitted: August 18, 2011 Decided: Septemer 1, 2011
Before TRAXLER, Chief Judge, and NIEMEYER and DUNCAN, Circuit
Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Barbara Corby Martin, Appellant Pro Se. Jean Barrett Hudson,
Assistant United States Attorney, Charlottesville, Virginia, for
Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Barbara Corby Martin seeks to appeal the district
court’s order denying relief on her 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 (West
Supp. 2011) 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.” 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2)
(2006). 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 (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 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
Martin has not made the requisite showing. Accordingly, we deny
a certificate of appealability and dismiss the appeal. We
dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal
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contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the
court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED
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