Case Name: Claude Henry MAZZA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. R.H. POWELL, Warden, Respondent-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-05-05
Citations: 128 F. App'x 328
Docket Number: No. 04-8007
Parties: Claude Henry MAZZA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. R.H. POWELL, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 128
Pages: 328–329

Head Matter:
Claude Henry MAZZA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. R.H. POWELL, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.
No. 04-8007.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted: April 28, 2005.
Decided: May 5, 2005.
Claude Henry Mazza, Appellant pro se.
Eugene Paul Murphy, Office of the Attorney General of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.
Before WILLIAMS, KING, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. See Local Rule 36(c).

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Claude Henry Mazza seeks to appeal the district court's order denying relief on his petition filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2000). The order is not appealable unless a circuit justice or judge issues a certificate of appealability. 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1) (2000). 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) (2000). A prisoner satisfies this standard by demonstrating that reasonable jurists would find that his constitutional claims are debatable and that any dispositive procedural rulings by the district court are also debatable or wrong. See Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 336, 123 S.Ct. 1029, 154 L.Ed.2d 931 (2003); Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484, 120 S.Ct. 1595, 146 L.Ed.2d 542 (2000); Rose v. Lee, 252 F.3d 676, 683 (4th Cir.2001). We have independently reviewed the record and conclude that Mazza has not made the requisite showing. Accordingly, we deny 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 be fore the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED