Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Glen Alan SPICER, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2014-08-01
Citations: 580 F. App'x 211
Docket Number: No. 14-6259
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Glen Alan SPICER, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 580
Pages: 211–212

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Glen Alan SPICER, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 14-6259.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted: July 24, 2014.
Decided: Aug. 1, 2014.
Glen Alan Spicer, Appellant Pro Se. Angela Hewlett Miller, Assistant United States Attorney, Randall Stuart Galyon, Office of the United States Attorney, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellee.
Before WILKINSON and KING, Circuit Judges, and DAVIS, Senior Circuit Judge.
Dismissed by unpublished PER CURIAM opinion.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Glen Alan Spicer seeks to appeal the district court's order accepting the recommendations of the magistrate judge and dismissing in part and denying in part his Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b) motions to reopen the district court's proceedings denying his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (2012) motion. The order is not appealable unless a circuit justice or judge issues a certificate of appealability. 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(B) (2012). A certificate of appealability will not issue absent "a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right." 28 U.S.C. § 2258(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 Spicer 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 before this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED.