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Date Created: 2024-03-21 18:01:16.548177+00
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Case: 23-10957           Document: 48-1         Page: 1      Date Filed: 03/21/2024

          United States Court of Appeals
               for the Fifth Circuit
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                                                                            United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                     Fifth Circuit
                                    No. 23-10957
                                  ____________                                     FILED
                                                                             March 21, 2024
United States of America,                                                     Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                                   Clerk
                                                                   Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                         versus

Michael Webb,

                                           Defendant—Appellant.
                  ______________________________

                  Appeal from the United States District Court
                      for the Northern District of Texas
                   USDC Nos. 4:23-CV-934, 4:19-CR-196-1
                  ______________________________

Before Haynes, Willett, and Duncan, Circuit Judges.
Per Curiam: *
      A jury convicted Michael Webb, federal prisoner #58831-177, of
kidnapping, and he is serving a life sentence. In August 2021, we affirmed
Webb’s conviction. In June 2023, Webb filed two documents entitled
“Motion for Evidentiary Rule/Corpus Delicti,” challenging the validity of
his kidnapping conviction based on the voluntariness of his confession and
on his assertion that the Government failed to present evidence

      _____________________
      *
          This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
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corroborating his confession. The district court dismissed those motions, and
Webb has now filed a motion for a certificate of appealability (COA) to
appeal that dismissal.
       Because Webb is not seeking to appeal the final order in a 28 U.S.C.
§ 2255 proceeding, his motion for a COA is DENIED as unnecessary. See
28   U.S.C.    § 2253(c)(1)(B).    Furthermore,      Webb’s   motions    were
“meaningless, unauthorized motion[s]” with no statutory or legal basis.
United States v. Early, 27 F.3d 140, 142 (5th Cir. 1994). Accordingly, the
district court’s orders dismissing Webb’s motions are AFFIRMED on that
basis. See id. We decline to consider Webb’s challenges to the validity of his
conviction that were not presented in the motions that he has sought to
appeal. See United States v. Scruggs, 691 F.3d 660, 666 (5th Cir. 2012).
Webb’s motion for an evidentiary hearing is DENIED.

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