Court Opinion

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UNPUBLISHED

                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                        FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                No. 08-8400

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                  Plaintiff - Appellee,

             v.

LUIS FERNANDO VEGA,

                  Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western
District of Virginia, at Roanoke.     Glen E. Conrad, District
Judge. (7:07-cr-00034-gec-mfu-1; 7:08-cv-80062-gec-mfu)

Submitted:    March 12, 2009                   Decided:    March 17, 2009

Before MOTZ and      SHEDD,    Circuit   Judges,   and   HAMILTON,   Senior
Circuit Judge.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Luis Fernando Vega, Appellant Pro Se.  Ronald Andrew Bassford,
Assistant  United  States   Attorney, Roanoke,  Virginia,  for
Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

           Luis     Fernando       Vega      seeks     to     appeal     the   district

court’s order denying relief on his 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 (West

Supp.   2008)    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 Vega 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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