Court Opinion

ID: 1028599
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2013-07-05 07:43:27.15589+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:36:00.039415
License: Public Domain

UNPUBLISHED

                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                        FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                               No. 08-7242

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                  Plaintiff – Appellee,

             v.

ALEX BRADLEY, JR.,

                  Defendant – Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia, at Newport News.      Raymond A. Jackson,
District Judge. (4:04-cr-00088-RAJ-FBS-2; 4:07-cv-00120-RAJ)

Submitted:    April 16, 2009                 Decided:   April 22, 2009

Before WILKINSON, NIEMEYER, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Alex Bradley, Jr., Appellant Pro Se.   Timothy Richard Murphy,
Special   Assistant  United States   Attorney,  Newport  News,
Virginia, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

               Alex   Bradley,       Jr.,      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 Bradley 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 in the materials before the court and argument would

not aid the decisional process.

                                                                                  DISMISSED

                                              2