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Parties Involved:
Randy Cooper
Appellant
Thomas L. McBride
Appellee

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 08-6142

RANDY COOPER,

Petitioner - Appellant,

v.

THOMAS L. MCBRIDE, Mount Olive Correctional Complex,

Respondent - Appellee.

No. 08-6145

RANDY COOPER,

Petitioner - Appellant,

v.

THOMAS L. MCBRIDE, Mount Olive Correctional Complex,

Respondent - Appellee.

Appeals from the United States District Court for the Southern

District of West Virginia, at Huntington. Robert C. Chambers,

District Judge. (3:07-cv-00203; 3:07-cv-00495)

Submitted: March 25, 2008 Decided: March 31, 2008

Before MOTZ, KING, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

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Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Randy Cooper, Appellant Pro Se. Robert David Goldberg, OFFICE OF

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF WEST VIRGINIA, Charleston, West Virginia,

for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Randy Cooper seeks to appeal the district court’s order

accepting a magistrate judge’s recommendation and dismissing his 28

U.S.C. § 2254 (2000) petitions as untimely filed. The order is not

appealable unless a circuit justice or judge issues a certificate

of appealability. 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1) (2000). 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) (2000).

A prisoner satisfies this standard by demonstrating that reasonable

jurists would find that any assessment of the constitutional claims

by the district court is debatable or wrong and that any

dispositive procedural ruling by the district court is likewise

debatable. Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 336-38 (2003);

Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000); Rose v. Lee, 252 F.3d

676, 683-84 (4th Cir. 2001). We have independently reviewed the

records and conclude that Cooper has not made the requisite

showing. Accordingly, we deny a certificate of appealability and

dismiss the appeals. We dispense with oral argument because the

facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the

materials before the court and argument would not aid the

decisional process.

DISMISSED

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