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Lance D. STURGIS, Petitioner—Appellant, v. J. Michael STOUFFER; Attorney General for the State of Maryland, Respondents—Appellees.
    No. 04-7864.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
    Submitted: Mary 12, 2005.
    Decided: May 17, 2005.
    Lance D. Sturgis, Appellant pro se.
    John Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General, Anne Norman Bosse, Office of the Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees.
    Before TRAXLER, KING, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.
    Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
    Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. See Local Rule 36(c).
   PER CURIAM:

Lance D. Sturgis, a state prisoner, seeks to appeal the district court’s order dismissing his petition filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2000) as time-barred under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1) (2000). The order is not appealable unless a circuit justice or judge issues a certificate of appealability. 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1) (2000). 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) (2000). A prisoner satisfies this standard by demonstrating that reasonable jurists would find that his constitutional claims are debatable and that any dispositive procedural rulings by the district court are also debatable or wrong. See Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 336, 123 S.Ct. 1029, 154 L.Ed.2d 931 (2003); Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484, 120 S.Ct. 1595, 146 L.Ed.2d 542 (2000); Rose v. Lee, 252 F.3d 676, 683 (4th Cir.2001). We have independently reviewed the record and conclude that Sturgis has not made the requisite showing. Accordingly, we deny a certificate of appealability, deny Sturgis’s motion for summary judgment, and dismiss the appeal. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

DISMISSED