Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-11-28 21:02:02.89587+00
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                                            UNPUBLISHED

                               UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                   FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                              No. 22-6671

        DAVID MEYERS,

                            Petitioner - Appellant,

                     v.

        TODD E. ISHEE, NCDPS Prisons Director; DENISE JACKSON; PRESCOTT
        WILLIAMS; ERICA A. HOOKS, NCDPS Secretary; ROY COOPER, NC-
        Governor; TIMOTHY MOOSE, NCDPS Deputy Secretary; BRANDESHAWN
        HARRIS, NCDPS Prisons Assistant Director,

                            Respondents - Appellees.

        Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at
        Richmond. M. Hannah Lauck, District Judge. (3:22-cv-00138-MHL-EWH)

        Submitted: November 21, 2023                                Decided: November 27, 2023

        Before WILKINSON and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges, and TRAXLER, Senior Circuit
        Judge.

        Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

        David Meyers, Appellant Pro Se.

        Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

               David Meyers seeks to appeal the district court’s memorandum opinion and final

        order dismissing his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition as an unauthorized, successive § 2254

        petition. The order is not appealable unless a circuit justice or judge issues a certificate of

        appealability. See 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(A). 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). When, as here, 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. Gonzalez v.

        Thaler, 565 U.S. 134, 140-41 (2012) (citing Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000)).

               We have independently reviewed the record and conclude that Meyers 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 this court and argument would not aid the

        decisional process.

                                                                                         DISMISSED

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