Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2015-07-28 19:03:11.421184+00
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UNPUBLISHED

                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                        FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                              No. 15-6712

CALVIN WAYNE BARBER,

                  Petitioner - Appellant,

          v.

RANDY REGISTER,

                  Respondent - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, at Raleigh.   Louise W. Flanagan,
District Judge. (5:15-hc-02016-FL)

Submitted:   July 23, 2015                  Decided:   July 28, 2015

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

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Calvin Wayne Barber, Appellant Pro Se.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

      Calvin Wayne Barber seeks to appeal the district court’s order

dismissing his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2012) petition without prejudice

as   an   unauthorized,   successive   petition.    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

Barber has not made the requisite showing.         Accordingly, we deny

a certificate of appealability, deny leave to proceed in forma

pauperis, and dismiss the appeal.      We dispense with oral argument

because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented

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

decisional process.

                                                        DISMISSED

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