Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2013-07-05 08:14:48.109738+00
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UNPUBLISHED

                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                        FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                No. 09-6503

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                  Plaintiff - Appellee,

             v.

JEFFREY TIGHE,

                  Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia, at Norfolk.    Mark S. Davis, District
Judge. (2:05-cr-00134-WDK-FBS-7)

Submitted:    October 9, 2009                 Decided:   October 21, 2009

Before KING and      AGEE,   Circuit   Judges,    and    HAMILTON,   Senior
Circuit Judge.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Jeffrey Tighe, Appellant         Pro Se.        Laura Marie Everhart,
Assistant United  States         Attorney,    Norfolk,  Virginia, for
Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

              Jeffrey    Tighe     seeks      to     appeal      the     district       court’s

order dismissing as untimely his 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 (West Supp.

2009) motion.           The order is not appealable unless a circuit

justice    or    judge    issues       a    certificate       of    appealability.                28

U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1) (2006).                 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)          (2006).           A

prisoner        satisfies       this        standard        by     demonstrating             that

reasonable       jurists       would       find    that     any     assessment          of     the

constitutional         claims    by    the    district       court       is    debatable          or

wrong and that any dispositive procedural ruling by the district

court is likewise debatable.                  Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S.

322, 336-38 (2003); Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000);

Rose v. Lee, 252 F.3d 676, 683-84 (4th Cir. 2001).                                     We have

independently reviewed the record and conclude that Tighe 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

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