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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UNPUBLISHED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. 19-7549

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff - Appellee, 

v. 

COSME RAMOS-HERNANDEZ, 

Defendant - Appellant. 

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at 

Raleigh. Terrence W. Boyle, Chief District Judge. (5:14-cr-00146-BO-2; 5:16-cv-00558-

BO) 

Submitted: March 10, 2020 Decided: March 16, 2020

Before NIEMEYER and AGEE, Circuit Judges, and SHEDD, Senior Circuit Judge. 

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion. 

Cosme Ramos-Hernandez, Appellant Pro Se. 

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. 

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PER CURIAM: 

Cosme Ramos-Hernandez seeks to appeal the district court’s order denying relief 

on his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (2018) motion. The order is not appealable unless a circuit justice 

or judge issues a certificate of appealability. See 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(B) (2018). 

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) (2018). When the district court denies relief 

on the merits, a prisoner satisfies this standard by demonstrating that reasonable jurists 

would find the district court’s assessment of the constitutional claims debatable or wrong. 

See Buck v. Davis, 137 S. Ct. 759, 773-74 (2017). 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. Gonzalez v. Thaler, 565 U.S. 134, 140-41 (2012) (citing Slack v. 

McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000)). 

We have independently reviewed the record and conclude that Ramos-Hernandez

has not made the requisite showing. Accordingly, we deny a certificate of appealability 

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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