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Date Created: 2022-05-13 21:00:20.249969+00
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UNPUBLISHED

                       UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                       No. 21-6044

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                     Plaintiff - Appellee,

              v.

RANDOLF MOORE, a/k/a Randy, a/k/a Booney,

                     Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at
Greenville. Malcolm J. Howard, Senior District Judge. (4:95-cr-00041-H-7)

Submitted: May 5, 2022                                            Decided: May 13, 2022

Before GREGORY, Chief Judge, and NIEMEYER and DIAZ, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed in part and affirmed in part by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Randolf Moore, Appellant Pro Se.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:

       Randolf Moore seeks to appeal the district court’s order denying his post-judgment

motions for discovery in his closed criminal case and his Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) motion for

relief from the district court’s prior order denying relief on his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion.

He has also moved for a certificate of appealability and for appointment of counsel.

       The district court’s denial of Moore’s Rule 60(b) motion is not appealable unless a

circuit justice or judge issues a certificate of appealability. See 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(B);

United States v. McRae, 793 F.3d 392, 400 & n.7 (4th Cir. 2015). 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). When the district court denies relief on the merits, a

prisoner satisfies this standard by showing that reasonable jurists could find the district

court’s assessment of the constitutional claims debatable or wrong. See Buck v. Davis, 137

S. Ct. 759, 773-74 (2017). When the district court denies relief on procedural grounds, the

prisoner must demonstrate both that the dispositive procedural ruling is debatable and that

the motion states a debatable claim of the denial of a constitutional right. Gonzalez v.

Thaler, 565 U.S. 134, 140-41 (2012) (citing Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000)).

       We have independently reviewed the record and conclude that Moore has not made

the requisite showing. Accordingly, we deny his motion for a certificate of appealability

and appointment of counsel, and we dismiss the appeal in part. As for Moore’s appeal of

the district court’s denial of his post-judgment motions for discovery, we have reviewed

the record and find no reversible error. We therefore affirm the district court’s denial. See

United States v. Moore, No. 4:95-cr-00041-H-7 (E.D.N.C. Dec. 18, 2020). We dispense

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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 IN PART,
                                                                   AFFIRMED IN PART

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