Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2015-04-20 19:01:02.321126+00
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UNPUBLISHED

                  UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                      FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                              No. 14-7721

JUAN ANTONIO PARTIDA-RODRIGUEZ,

                       Petitioner – Appellant,

          v.

FRANK PERRY,

                       Respondent - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western
District of North Carolina, at Charlotte.   Frank D. Whitney,
Chief District Judge. (3:14-cv-00408-FDW)

Submitted:   April 16, 2015                 Decided:   April 20, 2015

Before AGEE and KEENAN, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior
Circuit Judge.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Juan Antonio Partida-Rodriguez, Appellant Pro Se. Nicholaos
George Vlahos, NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Raleigh,
North Carolina, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

       Juan Antonio Partida-Rodriguez seeks to appeal the district

court’s    order      denying        relief    on    his    28    U.S.C.      § 2254    (2012)

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

Partida-Rodriguez              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

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contentions   are   adequately   presented   in   the   materials   before

this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

                                                               DISMISSED

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