Court Opinion

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UNPUBLISHED

                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                        FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                              No. 08-7928

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                  Plaintiff - Appellee,

             v.

MATTHEW ALLEN PROPST,

                  Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western
District of Virginia, at Charlottesville.     Norman K. Moon,
District Judge.   (3:06-cr-00017-NKM-MFU-12; 3:08-cv-80024-NKM-
MFU)

Submitted:    February 26, 2009             Decided:   March 6, 2009

Before NIEMEYER, MICHAEL, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Matthew McGavock Robinson, ROBINSON & BRANDT, PSC, Covington,
Kentucky, for Appellant.      Ronald Mitchell Huber, Assistant
United States Attorney, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

               Matthew      Allen     Propst       seeks    to        appeal   the     district

court’s    order       denying      relief     on   his     28    U.S.C.       § 2255    (2006)

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 Propst 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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