Case Name: Larry DOTSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Larry W. JARVIS; Jerry Kilgore; Supreme Court of Virginia; Stephen R. McCullough; Virginia Court of Appeals; Sheila Tolliver, Buchanan County Commonwealth's Attorney; United States Government; Edward A. Matney; Thomas W. Goodman, Jr., Respondents-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2004-08-09
Citations: 104 F. App'x 299
Docket Number: No. 03-7661
Parties: Larry DOTSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Larry W. JARVIS; Jerry Kilgore; Supreme Court of Virginia; Stephen R. McCullough; Virginia Court of Appeals; Sheila Tolliver, Buchanan County Commonwealth’s Attorney; United States Government; Edward A. Matney; Thomas W. Goodman, Jr., Respondents-Appellees.
Judges: Before WILLIAMS, MOTZ, and KING, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 104
Pages: 299–300

Head Matter:
Larry DOTSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Larry W. JARVIS; Jerry Kilgore; Supreme Court of Virginia; Stephen R. McCullough; Virginia Court of Appeals; Sheila Tolliver, Buchanan County Commonwealth’s Attorney; United States Government; Edward A. Matney; Thomas W. Goodman, Jr., Respondents-Appellees.
No. 03-7661.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted: July 21, 2004.
Decided: Aug. 9, 2004.
Frederick Wayne Adkins, Hugh Patrick Cline, Jr., Cline, Adkins & Cline, Norton, Virginia, for Appellant.
Stephen R. McCullough, Assistant Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellees.
Before WILLIAMS, MOTZ, and KING, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Larry Dotson seeks to appeal the district court's orders denying relief on his petition filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2000), and denying his motion to alter or amend the judgment. An appeal may not be taken from the final order in a habeas corpus proceeding unless a circuit justice or judge issues a certificate of appealability. 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1) (2000). 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) (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 Dotson has not made the requisite showing. Accordingly, we deny a certificate of ap-pealability and dismiss the appeal. We deny Dotson's motion to transfer an additional supplement to the record because the supplement he seeks, trial exhibit eleven, is part of the existing record. We also deny Dotson's motion for a pre-hearing conference and his motion to file a pro se supplemental brief. 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