Certiorari dismissed by Supreme Court, January 13, 2014



                              UNPUBLISHED

                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                        FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT


                              No. 13-6778


COREY E. JOHNSON,

                       Petitioner – Appellant,

             v.

LORETTA K. KELLY, Warden, Sussex I State Prison,

                       Respondent – Appellee,

             and

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                       Respondent.



Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia, at Richmond. James R. Spencer, District
Judge. (3:07-cv-00731-JRS)


Submitted:    July 25, 3013                    Decided:    July 30, 2013


Before GREGORY, DAVIS, and THACKER, Circuit Judges.


Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.


Corey E. Johnson, Appellant Pro Se. Leah A. Darron, OFFICE OF
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF VIRGINIA, Richmond, Virginia, for
Appellee.


Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:

              Corey E. Johnson seeks to appeal the district court’s

order       denying     his       Fed.     R.       Civ.      P.        60(b)     motion       for

reconsideration of the district court’s order denying relief on

his    28    U.S.C.     § 2254      (2006)       petition.              The     order    is    not

appealable      unless        a     circuit         justice        or     judge       issues     a

certificate of appealability.                 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(A) (2006);

Reid    v.     Angelone,          

,      369       (4th     Cir.     2004).

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,          

,   484

(2000); see Miller-El v. Cockrell, 

, 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 petition states a debatable

claim of the denial of a constitutional right.                                

.

              We have independently reviewed the record and conclude

that Johnson has not made the requisite showing.                                 Accordingly,

we deny a certificate of appealability, deny leave to proceed in

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forma pauperis, and dismiss the appeal.   We dispense with oral

argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately

presented in the materials before this court and argument would

not aid the decisional process.



                                                      DISMISSED




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