United States v. Corey Moore ( 2020 )

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 19-6859
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
v.
COREY A. MOORE,
Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Greenbelt.
Theodore D. Chuang, District Judge. (8:10-cr-00648-TDC-1; 8:15-cv-03992-TDC)
Submitted: April 21, 2020 Decided: April 30, 2020
Before GREGORY, Chief Judge, and WILKINSON and KEENAN, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Brian L. Stekloff, WILKINSON WALSH, LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Corey Moore seeks to appeal the district court’s order denying his Fed. R. Civ. P.
60 motion for relief from the district court’s prior order denying relief on his 28 U.S.C.
§ 2255 (2018) motion. The order is not appealable unless a circuit justice or judge issues
a certificate of appealability. 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(B) (2018); see generally United
States v. McRae, 793 F.3d 392, 400 & n.7 (4th Cir. 2015). 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) (2018). When the district court denies relief on the merits, a prisoner
satisfies this standard by demonstrating that reasonable jurists could find the district court’s
assessment of the constitutional claims debatable or wrong. See Buck v. Davis, 137 S. Ct.
759, 773-74 (2017). When the district court denies relief on procedural grounds, the
prisoner must demonstrate both that the dispositive procedural ruling is debatable and that
the motion states a debatable claim of the denial of a constitutional right. Gonzalez v.
Thaler, 565 U.S. 134, 140-41 (2012) (citing Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000)).
We have independently reviewed the record and conclude that Moore 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 this court and argument would not aid the
decisional process.
DISMISSED
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