Case Name: Quincye Allou SIMMONS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. A.D. BRAXTON, Warden, Respondent-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2003-08-11
Citations: 71 F. App'x 239
Docket Number: No. 03-6527
Parties: Quincye Allou SIMMONS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. A.D. BRAXTON, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.
Judges: Before WIDENER and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 71
Pages: 239–240

Head Matter:
Quincye Allou SIMMONS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. A.D. BRAXTON, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.
No. 03-6527.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted July 1, 2003.
Decided Aug. 11, 2003.
David Bernard Hargett, Hargett & Watson, P.L.C., Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee. Hazel Elizabeth Shaffer, Assistant Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.
Before WIDENER and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.
Dismissed by unpublished PER CURIAM opinion.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Quincye Allou Simmons seeks to appeal the district court's order 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. See 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, 123 S.Ct. 1029, 1040, 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.Sd 676, 683 (4th Cir.), cert. denied, 534 U.S. 941, 122 S.Ct. 318, 151 L.Ed.2d 237 (2001). We have independently reviewed the record and conclude that Simmons 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 the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED.