Case Name: Ricardo Abraham GONZALEZ-CASTRO, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Bob W. MARSHALL; Kieran J. Shanahan, Respondents-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2015-11-19
Citations: 622 F. App'x 262
Docket Number: No. 15-6462
Parties: Ricardo Abraham GONZALEZ-CASTRO, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Bob W. MARSHALL; Kieran J. Shanahan, Respondents-Appellees.
Judges: Before KING and FLOYD, Circuit Judges, and DAVIS, Senior Circuit Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 622
Pages: 262–263

Head Matter:
Ricardo Abraham GONZALEZ-CASTRO, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Bob W. MARSHALL; Kieran J. Shanahan, Respondents-Appellees.
No. 15-6462.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted: Oct. 28, 2015.
Decided: Nov. 19, 2015.
Ricardo Abraham Gonzalez-Castro, Appellant Pro Se. Clarence Joe DelForge, III, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.
Before KING and FLOYD, Circuit Judges, and DAVIS, Senior Circuit Judge.

Opinion:
Dismissed by unpublished PER CURIAM opinion.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Ricardo Abraham Gonzalez-Castro seeks to appeal the district court's order accepting the recommendation of the magistrate judge and dismissing as untimely his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2012) petition. The order is not appealable unless a circuit justice or judge issues a certificate of ap-pealability. 28 U.S.C. § 2258(c)(1)(A) (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, 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 petition 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 Gonzalez-Castro 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 this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED.