Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2016-11-08 20:01:00.522614+00
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UNPUBLISHED

                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                        FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                              No. 16-6912

JEREMIAH TURNER,

                Petitioner – Appellant,

          v.

ROBERT   STEVENS,    Warden     of   Broad    River     Correctional
Institution,

                Respondent - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Florence.     Henry M. Herlong, Jr., Senior
District Judge. (4:16-cv-00813-HMH)

Submitted:   October 17, 2016                Decided:    November 8, 2016

Before MOTZ and AGEE, Circuit Judges, and DAVIS, Senior Circuit
Judge.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Jeremiah Turner, Appellant Pro Se.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

       Jeremiah Turner seeks to appeal the district court’s order

accepting the recommendation of the magistrate judge and denying

his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2012) petition as untimely.                             The order is

not    appealable       unless    a   circuit       justice      or    judge     issues    a

certificate of appealability.               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

demonstrating         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

(2000); see Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 336-38 (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.

       We have independently reviewed the record and conclude that

Turner 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

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contentions   are   adequately   presented   in   the   materials   before

this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

                                                               DISMISSED

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