United States v. James Schimmel , 589 F. App'x 105 ( 2014 )


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  •                             UNPUBLISHED
    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
    FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
    No. 14-7384
    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
    Plaintiff - Appellee,
    v.
    JAMES RAYMOND SCHIMMEL,
    Defendant - Appellant.
    Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
    District of Virginia, at Alexandria.     Liam O’Grady, District
    Judge. (1:12-cr-00494-LO-1; 1:14-cv-00550-LO)
    Submitted:   December 18, 2014            Decided:   December 23, 2014
    Before SHEDD, WYNN, and THACKER, Circuit Judges.
    Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
    James Raymond Schimmel, Appellant Pro Se.    Catherine Sun Ahn,
    Special Assistant United States Attorney, Alexander T. H.
    Nguyen,   Karen  Ledbetter   Taylor,  Assistant  United   States
    Attorneys, Ryan K. Dickey, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY,
    Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee.
    Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
    PER CURIAM:
    James Raymond Schimmel seeks to appeal the district
    court’s    order    denying    relief      on    his   
    28 U.S.C. § 2255
        (2012)
    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) (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 motion 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 Schimmel has not made the requisite showing.                         Accordingly,
    we deny Schimmel’s motion for a certificate of appealability and
    dismiss the appeal.          We dispense with oral argument because the
    facts    and    legal     contentions      are   adequately        presented     in    the
    2
    materials   before   this   court   and   argument   would   not    aid   the
    decisional process.
    DISMISSED
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Document Info

Docket Number: 14-7384

Citation Numbers: 589 F. App'x 105

Judges: Shedd, Wynn, Thacker

Filed Date: 12/23/2014

Precedential Status: Non-Precedential

Modified Date: 11/6/2024