Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2017-07-06 19:01:08.356112+00
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UNPUBLISHED

                       UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                      No. 17-6120

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                    Plaintiff - Appellee,

             v.

MARTIN TERAN, a/k/a El Chapin, a/k/a Daniel R. Rodriguez, a/k/a David L.
Morales Garcia, a/k/a Hugo Roland Gomez,

                    Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at
Columbia. Joseph F. Anderson, Jr., Senior District Judge. (3:10-cr-00468-JFA-1; 3:14-
cv-01579-JFA)

Submitted: June 27, 2017                                          Decided: July 6, 2017

Before GREGORY, Chief Judge, and KING and WYNN, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Martin Teran, Appellant Pro Se. Julius Ness Richardson, Assistant United States Attorney,
Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

       Martin Teran seeks to appeal the district court’s order denying relief in his 28 U.S.C.

§ 2255 (2012) proceeding. ∗ The order is not appealable unless a circuit justice or judge

issues a certificate of appealability. 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(B) (2012); Reid v. Angelone,

369 F.3d 363, 369-70 (4th Cir. 2004). 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 motion 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 Teran 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

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        The district court entered judgment denying Teran’s § 2255 motion on June 15,
2015. By motion deposited in the prison’s mail system on May 6, 2016, at the earliest,
Teran sought relief from that judgment under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b). The court denied the
Rule 60(b) motion on December 27, 2016. Teran noted his appeal on January 30, 2017.
Because Teran did not file the Rule 60(b) motion within 28 days of the court’s final order,
the motion did not toll the time for filing a notice of appeal from a final judgment. Fed. R.
App. P. 4(a)(4)(A). Thus, Teran’s notice of appeal applies only to the December 27, 2016,
order denying his Rule 60(b) motion and related Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e) motion, and his
challenges to the June 15, 2015, order are not subject to review.

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adequately presented in the materials before this court and argument would not aid the

decisional process.

                                                                         DISMISSED

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