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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 2255', '§ 2255', '§ 2255', '§ 2255', '§ 2255', '§ 2255', '§ 2253', '§ 2253']

UNITED STATES OF AMERICAv.DENNIS SCOTT McCULLOUGH Criminal No. 3:06CR389
By Memorandum Opinion and Order entered on June 3, 2009, the Court denied a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 filed by Dennis Scott McCullough. (ECF Nos. 91-92.) On September 30, 2013, the Court received a successive, unauthorized 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion from McCullough ("§ 2255 Motion, " ECF No. 93).
Because the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has not authorized this Court to entertain McCullough's successive § 2255 Motion, the § 2255 Motion (ECF No. 93) will be dismissed for want of jurisdiction.
An appeal may not be taken from the final order in a § 2255 proceeding unless a judge issues a certificate of appealability PCOA"). 23 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(B). A COA will not issue unless a prisoner makes "a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right." 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2). This requirement is satisfied only when "reasonable jurists could debate whether (or, for that matter, agree that) the petition should have been resolved in a different manner or that the issues presented were adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed further.'" Slack v. McDaniel , 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2C00) (quoting Barefoot v. Estelle , 463 U.S. 880, 893 & n.4 (1983)). McCullough fails to satisfy this standard. Accordingly, a COA will be denied.
The Clerk is directed to send a copy of this Memorandum Opinion to McCullough and counsel for the United States.