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Nature of Suit Code: 510
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Vacate Sentence
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UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 14-7891

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff - Appellee,

v.

TREVOR REED,

Defendant - Appellant.

No. 15-6240

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff - Appellee,

v.

TREVOR REED,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeals from the United States District Court for the Eastern 

District of North Carolina, at Raleigh. J. Frederick Motz, 

Senior District Judge. (5:11-cr-00353-M-1; 5:14-cv-00502-M)

Submitted: August 21, 2015 Decided: September 3, 2015

Before NIEMEYER, SHEDD, and AGEE, Circuit Judges.

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Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Trevor Reed, Appellant Pro Se. Evan Rikhye, Assistant United 

States Attorney, Seth Morgan Wood, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

ATTORNEY, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

In these consolidated cases, Trevor Reed seeks to appeal 

the district court’s order dismissing his second 28 U.S.C. 

§ 2255 (2012) motion as successive (No. 14-7891) and the 

district court’s order denying Reed’s Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) 

motion to set aside the order denying his first 28 U.S.C. § 2255 

motion (No. 15-6240). These orders are not appealable unless a 

circuit justice or judge issues a certificate of appealability. 

28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(B) (2012). 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) 

(2012). 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 

Reed has not made the requisite showing. Accordingly, we deny a 

certificate of appealability and dismiss the appeals. We 

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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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