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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (State)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LEE V. QUILLAR,

Plaintiff,

Case No. 01CV968 BTM (BEN)

ORDER RE CERTIFICATE OF

v. APPEALABILITY

RICK M. HILL,

Defendant.

Petitioner has filed a Notice of Appeal from the Court’s Order Denying Motion for

Relief from Final Judgment. The Court construes this Notice of Appeal as a motion for the

issuance of a certificate of appealability. See Hawks v. Kane, No. C 04-01822 JSW, 2006

U.S. Dist. LEXIS 90879, at *1-2 (N.D. Cal. Dec. 6, 2006).

When a district court dismisses a habeas petition solely on procedural grounds, a

certificate of appealability will not issue unless the petitioner can demonstrate both (1) “that

jurists of reason would find it debatable whether the petition states a valid claim of the denial

of a constitutional right” and (2) “that jurists of reason would find it debatable whether the

district court was correct in its procedural ruling.” Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484

(2000).

Petitioner has made no showing that reasonable jurists would find that the Court’s

decision to deny his Rule 60(b)(6) motion is debatable or wrong. See Haynes v. United

States, No. PJM 02-3850, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 74017, at *4 (D. Md. July 21, 2010)

(denying certificate of appealability where petitioner sought to appeal denial of Rule 60(b)(6)

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motion as a successive habeas appeal); United States v. Sheppard, No. 10-6679, 2010 U.S.

App. LEXIS 17014 (4th Cir. S.C. Aug. 9, 2010) (same). Accordingly, a certificate of

appealability is DENIED. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: December 30, 2010

Honorable Barry Ted Moskowitz

United States District Judge

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