Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2019-01-09 20:00:22.124502+00
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UNPUBLISHED

                       UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                      No. 18-6855

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                    Plaintiff - Appellee,

             v.

PATRICK O’BRIAN ARTIS,

                    Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina,
at Charlotte. Max O. Cogburn, Jr., District Judge. (3:13-cr-00218-MOC-DSC-1; 3:18-
cv-00156-MOC)

Submitted: November 20, 2018                                      Decided: January 9, 2019

Before WILKINSON, FLOYD, and HARRIS, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Patrick O’Brian Artis, Appellant Pro Se.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

       Patrick O’Brian Artis seeks to appeal the district court’s order denying relief on

his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (2012) motion and a subsequent order denying his Fed. R. Civ. P.

59(e) motion. The orders are not appealable unless a circuit justice or judge issues a

certificate of appealability.    28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(B) (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

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 Artis 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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