Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Donald Stanton SHEALEY, a/k/a Face, a/k/a Diddy, a/k/a Face Diddy, a/k/a The City, a/k/a Donald Santon Shealey, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-08-29
Citations: 668 F. App'x 475
Docket Number: No. 16-6156
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Donald Stanton SHEALEY, a/k/a Face, a/k/a Diddy, a/k/a Face Diddy, a/k/a The City, a/k/a Donald Santon Shealey, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before NIEMEYER, DIAZ, and FLOYD, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 668
Pages: 475–476

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Donald Stanton SHEALEY, a/k/a Face, a/k/a Diddy, a/k/a Face Diddy, a/k/a The City, a/k/a Donald Santon Shealey, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 16-6156
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted: August 25, 2016
Decided: August 29, 2016
Donald Stanton Shealey, Appellant Pro Se. Stephen Aubrey West, Assistant United States Attorney, Jonathan Philip Hol-brook, Tobin Webb Lathan, Banumathi Rangarajan, Denise Walker, Seth Morgan Wood, Office of the United States Attorney, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.
Before NIEMEYER, DIAZ, and FLOYD, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Donald Stanton Shealey seeks to appeal the district court's orders accepting the recommendation of the magistrate judge and denying relief on his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (2012) motion and denying his Fed. R. Civ. P, 59(e) motion. The orders are not appeal-able unless a circuit justice or judge issues a certificate of appealability. 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(B) (2012). A certificate of ap-pealability 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, 120 S.Ct. 1595, 146 L.Ed.2d 542 (2000); see Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 336-38, 123 S.Ct. 1029, 154 L.Ed.2d 931 (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 484-85,120 S.Ct. 1595.
We have independently reviewed the record and conclude that Shealey has not made the requisite showing. Accordingly, we deny Shealey* s motion for a certificate of appealability and dismiss the appeal. 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.
DISMISSED