Opinion ID: 866774
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Heading: standard of review

Text: Baker must obtain a COA to pursue an appeal. See United States v. Harper, 545 F.3d 1230, 1233 (10th Cir. 2008). Because the district court’s ruling rests on procedural grounds, he must show both “that jurists of reason would find it debatable whether the petition states a valid claim of the denial of a constitutional right and that jurists of reason would find it debatable whether the district court was correct in its procedural ruling.” Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000). We deny a COA because reasonable jurists would not find debatable the district court’s ruling that it lacked jurisdiction over Baker’s motion because it was an unauthorized second-or-successive § 2255 motion.