Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jorge ROMERO-ALARCON, a/k/a Ramiro Ortiz, a/k/a Ramiro Ortiz-Tobias, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-10-04
Citations: 396 F. App'x 976
Docket Number: No. 09-8193
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jorge ROMERO-ALARCON, a/k/a Ramiro Ortiz, a/k/a Ramiro Ortiz-Tobias, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before WILKINSON and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 396
Pages: 976–977

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jorge ROMERO-ALARCON, a/k/a Ramiro Ortiz, a/k/a Ramiro Ortiz-Tobias, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 09-8193.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted: Sept. 16, 2010.
Decided: Oct. 4, 2010.
Jorge Romero-Alarcon, Appellant pro se. Amy Elizabeth Ray, Assistant United States Attorney, Asheville, North Carolina, for Appellee.
Before WILKINSON and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Opinion:
Dismissed by unpublished PER CURIAM opinion.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Jorge Romero-Alarcon seeks to appeal the district court's order denying relief on his 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 (West Supp.2010) motion. The order is not appealable unless a circuit justice or judge issues a certificate of appealability. 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1) (2006). 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) (2006). 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 Romero-Alarcon has not made the requisite showing. Accordingly, we deny a certificate of appeala-bility and dismiss the appeal. 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.