Case ID: f-appx_708/html/0795-01.html
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Author: {"author": "JERRY E. SMITH, United States Circuit Judge", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

James Le’Roy KELLEY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Lorie DAVIS, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, Respondent-Appellee.
    No. 16-11744
    United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    Date Filed: 10/02/2017
    James Le’Roy Kelley, Pro Se
    Nathan Tadema, Office of the Attorney General for the State of Texas, Austin, TX, for Respondent-Appellee
   ORDER:

JERRY E. SMITH, United States Circuit Judge

James Kelley, Texas prisoner #1894193, is imprisoned for possessing cocaine in a drug-free zone and fraudulently possessing identifying information. He moves for a certifícate of appealability (“COA”) to appeal the denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 application in which he raised claims that (1) trial counsel was ineffective because (a) counsel did not object to the absence of a court reporter during the plea and sentencing proceedings and (b) counsel was not present and did not insist that Kelley be present at sentencing; (2) several documents in the state trial court records were fraudulent; and (3) the trial court did not orally impose consecutive sentences.

Kelley is entitled to a COA if he makes “a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right.” 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2); see Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 336, 123 S.Ct. 1029, 154 L.Ed.2d 931 (2003). He must establish that reasonable jurists would find the decision to deny relief debatable or wrong, see Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 483-84, 120 S.Ct. 1595, 146 L.Ed.2d 542 (2000), or that the issues he presents deserve encouragement to proceed further, see Miller-El, 537 U.S. at 327, 123 S.Ct. 1029.

Kelley has not made the required showing. Accordingly, the motion for a COA is DENIED. All outstanding motions are also DENIED.