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Parties Involved:
United States of America
Appellee
Ryan Lee Zater
Appellant

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 15-6148

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff - Appellee,

v.

RYAN LEE ZATER,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of

South Carolina, at Columbia. Cameron McGowan Currie, District 

Judge. (3:00-cr-00626-CMC-1)

Submitted: April 16, 2015 Decided: April 21, 2015

Before AGEE and KEENAN, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior 

Circuit Judge.

Affirmed in part dismissed in part by unpublished per curiam 

opinion.

Ryan Lee Zater, Appellant Pro Se. Stacey Denise Haynes, 

Assistant United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for 

Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Ryan Lee Zater appeals the district court’s order denying 

his motion for reduction of sentence. We agree with the 

district court that neither 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) (2012) nor 

Fed. R. Crim. P. 35 authorizes such a reduction, and we 

therefore affirm the district court’s ruling.

The court also ruled that Zater’s motion was, in effect, an 

unauthorized successive motion for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 

(2012) over which it lacked jurisdiction. The district court’s 

determination that it lacked jurisdiction over a successive 

motion without authorization from this court is not debatable or 

wrong. 28 U.S.C. §§ 2244, 2253(c)(1)(B), 2255(h) (2012). 

Therefore, to the extent Zater seeks to challenge that decision,

we deny a certificate of appealability and dismiss the appeal.

Accordingly, we affirm in part and dismiss in part. 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.

AFFIRMED IN PART,

DISMISSED IN PART

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