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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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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

Mack Calvin Martin,

Petitioner,

vs.

Deputy Warden Rider, et al.,

Respondents.

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No. CV-06-1513-PHX-PGR 

 

ORDER DENYING CERTIFICATE

OF APPEALABILITY

Having reviewed the petitioner’s Request for Order Re: Certificate of

Appealability (doc. #39), the Court finds that no certificate of appealability should

be issued. 

The Court denied the petitioner’s habeas petition, filed pursuant to 28

U.S.C. § 2254, on the grounds that the petitioner had failed to properly exhaust

his state court remedies as to any of the claims raised in his petition and had

failed to establish any cause or prejudice for his failure to exhaust. Since the

Court denied the petition on procedural grounds without reaching the merits of

the petitioner’s constitutional claims, a COA should issue only if the petitioner

shows (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

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would find it debatable whether the Court was correct in its procedural ruling.

Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484, 120 S.Ct. 1595, 1604 (2000); 28 U.S.C. 

§ 2253(c)(1)(B) and (c)(2). The Court is unpersuaded that the petitioner has met

his burden as to either of these factors. Therefore,

IT IS ORDERED that the petitioner’s Request for Order Re: Certificate of

Appealability (doc. #39) is denied.

DATED this 24th day of March, 2009.

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