USCA4 Appeal: 22-6671 Doc: 18 Filed: 11/27/2023 Pg: 1 of 2

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 22-6671

DAVID MEYERS,

Petitioner - Appellant,

v.

TODD E. ISHEE, NCDPS Prisons Director; DENISE JACKSON; PRESCOTT WILLIAMS; ERICA A. HOOKS, NCDPS Secretary; ROY COOPER, NC- Governor; TIMOTHY MOOSE, NCDPS Deputy Secretary; BRANDESHAWN HARRIS, NCDPS Prisons Assistant Director,

Respondents - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Richmond. M. Hannah Lauck, District Judge. (3:22-cv-00138-MHL-EWH)

Submitted: November 21, 2023 Decided: November 27, 2023

Before WILKINSON and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges, and TRAXLER, Senior Circuit Judge.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

David Meyers, Appellant Pro Se.

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PER CURIAM:

David Meyers seeks to appeal the district court’s memorandum opinion and final

order dismissing his

petition as an unauthorized, successive § 2254

petition. The order is not appealable unless a circuit justice or judge issues a certificate of

appealability. See

(c)(1)(A). A certificate of appealability will not issue

absent “a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right.”

(c)(2). When, as here, the district court denies relief on procedural grounds, the

prisoner must demonstrate both that the dispositive procedural ruling is debatable and that

the petition states a debatable claim of the denial of a constitutional right. Gonzalez v.

Thaler,

(2012) (citing Slack v. McDaniel,

(2000)).

We have independently reviewed the record and conclude that Meyers 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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