Case Name: Nathaniel H. JONES, a/k/a Nathaniel Hampton Jones, a/k/a Nathaniel Jones, a/k/a Nathaniel Hampton, Petitioner-Appellant, v. STATE of South Carolina; Henry Dargan McMaster, Attorney General of South Carolina, Respondents-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-08-16
Citations: 141 F. App'x 161
Docket Number: Nos. 05-6101, 05-6114, 05-6143
Parties: Nathaniel H. JONES, a/k/a Nathaniel Hampton Jones, a/k/a Nathaniel Jones, a/k/a Nathaniel Hampton, Petitioner—Appellant, v. STATE of South Carolina; Henry Dargan McMaster, Attorney General of South Carolina, Respondents—Appellees.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 141
Pages: 161–162

Head Matter:
Nathaniel H. JONES, a/k/a Nathaniel Hampton Jones, a/k/a Nathaniel Jones, a/k/a Nathaniel Hampton, Petitioner—Appellant, v. STATE of South Carolina; Henry Dargan McMaster, Attorney General of South Carolina, Respondents—Appellees.
Nos. 05-6101, 05-6114, 05-6143.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted: July 27, 2005.
Decided: Aug. 16, 2005.
Nathaniel H. Jones, Appellant Pro Se. Henry Dargan McMaster, Attorney General, William Edgar Salter, III, Office of the Attorney General of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees.
Before NIEMEYER, MICHAEL, and KING, 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Dismissed by unpublished PER CURIAM opinion.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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:
In these consolidated appeals, Nathaniel H. Jones, a South Carolina prisoner, seeks to appeal the district court's order accept ing the recommendation of the magistrate judge and denying relief on his petition filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2000). An appeal may not be taken from the final order in a § 2254 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 for claims addressed by a district court 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 both 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 Jones has not made the requisite showing. Accordingly, we deny a certificate of appealability and dismiss the appeals. 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