Court Opinion

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UNPUBLISHED

                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                        FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                No. 09-6457

JOSE LUIS GARZA,

                  Petitioner - Appellant,

             v.

WARDEN WAYNE TALBERT,

                  Respondent - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, at Raleigh.   Malcolm J. Howard,
Senior District Judge. (5:07-hc-02210-H)

Submitted:    August 27, 2009                 Decided:   October 2, 2009

Before NIEMEYER, DUNCAN, and AGEE, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Jose Luis Garza, Appellant Pro Se. Clarence Joe DelForge, III,
Assistant  Attorney  General,   Raleigh, North  Carolina,  for
Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

               Jose Luis Garza seeks to appeal the district court’s

order denying relief on his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2006) 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) (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.                     See 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 Garza

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 the

court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

                                                                               DISMISSED

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