Filed: Jun. 02, 2014
Latest Update: Jun. 02, 2014
Summary: OPINION and ORDER CAMERON McGOWAN CURRIE, Senior District Judge. This matter is before the court on Defendant's "Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus Pursuant to 28 USC Section 2255." ECF No. 338. Defendant seeks relief pursuant to the recent Supreme Court decision in Descamps v. United States, 570 U.S. __, 133 S.Ct. 2276 (2013). Defendant's motion is, in reality, a successive motion for relief under 28 U.S.C. 2255. 1 Defendant's failure to seek permission to file a second or successive
Summary: OPINION and ORDER CAMERON McGOWAN CURRIE, Senior District Judge. This matter is before the court on Defendant's "Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus Pursuant to 28 USC Section 2255." ECF No. 338. Defendant seeks relief pursuant to the recent Supreme Court decision in Descamps v. United States, 570 U.S. __, 133 S.Ct. 2276 (2013). Defendant's motion is, in reality, a successive motion for relief under 28 U.S.C. 2255. 1 Defendant's failure to seek permission to file a second or successive m..
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OPINION and ORDER
CAMERON McGOWAN CURRIE, Senior District Judge.
This matter is before the court on Defendant's "Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus Pursuant to 28 USC Section 2255." ECF No. 338. Defendant seeks relief pursuant to the recent Supreme Court decision in Descamps v. United States, 570 U.S. __, 133 S.Ct. 2276 (2013).
Defendant's motion is, in reality, a successive motion for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255.1 Defendant's failure to seek permission to file a second or successive motion in the appropriate court of appeals prior to filing the motion in the district court is fatal to the outcome of any action on the motion in this court. Prior to filing a second or successive motion under § 2255, Defendant must obtain certification by a panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals allowing him to file a second or successive motion. As provided in 28 U.S.C. § 2244, "[b]efore a second or successive application permitted by this section is filed in the district court, the applicant shall move in the appropriate court of appeals for an order authorizing the district court to consider the application." 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(A). This he has not done.2
Defendant's motion is dismissed without prejudice as this court is without jurisdiction to consider it.
CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY
The governing law provides that:
(c)(2) A certificate of appealability may issue ... only if the applicant has made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right.
(c)(3) The certificate of appealability ... shall indicate which specific issue or issues satisfy the showing required by paragraph (2).
28 U.S.C. § 2253(c). A prisoner satisfies this standard by demonstrating that reasonable jurists would find this court's assessment of his constitutional claims is debatable or wrong and that any dispositive procedural ruling by the district court is likewise debatable. See Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 336 (2003); Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000); Rose v. Lee, 252 F.3d 676, 683 (4th Cir. 2001). In this case, the legal standard for the issuance of a certificate of appealability has not been met. Therefore, a certificate of appealability is denied.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
