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Parties Involved:
Younis El Sayedri
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 16-7055

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff - Appellee,

v.

YOUNIS EL SAYEDRI, a/k/a Younis Badri, a/k/a Younis 

Abdulkarim Mohamed El Sayedri, a/k/a Younis Abdalkarim 

Mohamed, a/k/a Younis Abdel Mohamed Badri, a/k/a Younis 

Abdelkar Badri, a/k/a Youngish Elsayedri,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern 

District of Virginia, at Alexandria. Anthony John Trenga, 

District Judge. (1:12-cr-00290-AJT-1; 1:16-cv-00533-AJT)

Submitted: October 13, 2016 Decided: October 18, 2016

Before NIEMEYER, DUNCAN, and WYNN, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Younis El Sayedri, Appellant Pro Se. Michael John Frank, Julia 

K. Martinez, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Alexandria, 

Virginia, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Younis El Sayedri seeks to appeal the district court’s 

order denying relief on his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (2012) motion. The 

order is not appealable unless a circuit justice or judge issues 

a certificate of appealability. 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(B)

(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 motion 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

El Sayedri has not made the requisite showing. Accordingly, we 

deny a certificate of appealability, deny El Sayedri’s motion 

for a copy of the transcript at Government expense, and dismiss 

the appeal. We dispense with oral argument because the facts 

and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials 

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before this court and argument would not aid the decisional 

process.

DISMISSED

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