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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
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UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 16-6419

LEWIS WILLIAM ADDIS, JR.,

Petitioner - Appellant,

v.

WARDEN OF ALLENDALE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION,

Respondent – Appellee,

and

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 

Respondent.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of 

South Carolina, at Aiken. Mary G. Lewis, District Judge. 

(1:15-cv-01109-MGL)

Submitted: August 18, 2016 Decided: August 23, 2016

Before WILKINSON, KING, and KEENAN, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Lewis William Addis, Jr., Appellant Pro Se. William Edgar 

Salter, III, Assistant Attorney General, Donald John Zelenka, 

Senior Assistant Attorney General, Columbia, South Carolina, for 

Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Lewis William Addis, Jr., seeks to appeal the district 

court’s orders accepting the recommendation of the magistrate 

judge and denying relief on his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2012)

petition, and denying Addis’ Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e) motion to 

alter or amend judgment. The orders are not appealable unless a 

circuit justice or judge issues a certificate of appealability. 

28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(A) (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 petition 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 

Addis 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 

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contentions are adequately presented in the materials before 

this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

DISMISSED

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