Case Name: Mario Serrano SIBUG, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Gregg L. HERSHBERGER, Warden; Douglas F. Gansler; The Attorney General of the State of Maryland, Respondents-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2014-01-24
Citations: 551 F. App'x 719
Docket Number: No. 13-7172
Parties: Mario Serrano SIBUG, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Gregg L. HERSHBERGER, Warden; Douglas F. Gansler; The Attorney General of the State of Maryland, Respondents-Appellees.
Judges: Before DUNCAN, AGEE, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 551
Pages: 719–720

Head Matter:
Mario Serrano SIBUG, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Gregg L. HERSHBERGER, Warden; Douglas F. Gansler; The Attorney General of the State of Maryland, Respondents-Appellees.
No. 13-7172.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted: Jan. 17, 2014.
Decided: Jan. 24, 2014.
Mario Serrano Sibug, Appellant Pro Se. Edward John Kelley, Office of the Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees.
Before DUNCAN, AGEE, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
Dismissed by unpublished PER CURIAM opinion.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Mario Serrano Sibug seeks to appeal the district court's order dismissing his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2012) petition as successive. The order is not appealable unless a circuit justice or judge issues a certificate of ap-pealability. See 28 U.S.C. § 2253(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 demon strating 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 Sibug has not made the requisite showing. Accordingly, we deny Sibug's motion for appointment of counsel, 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.