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UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 25-6355

NAJARRED T. WALKER, Petitioner - Appellant, v. WARDEN FRANK B. BISHOP; MARYLAND ATTORNEY GENERAL, Respondents - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Greenbelt.

Theodore D. Chuang, District Judge. (8:20-cv-01076-TDC)

Submitted: July 29, 2025 Decided: August 1, 2025

Before KING, WYNN, and BERNER, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Najarred T. Walker, Appellant Pro Se.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM: Najarred T. Walker seeks to appeal an order denying relief on his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition. Though that order was issued by this court, Walker seems to believe it was issued by the district court. For the reasons that follow, we deny a certificate of appealability and dismiss Walker’s appeal as duplicative.

The district court dismissed Walker’s § 2254 petition in September 2023. Walker appealed and, in November 2024, this court denied a certificate of appealability and dismissed Walker’s appeal. Walker v. Bishop, No. 23-7138, 2024 WL 4850767 (4th Cir. Nov. 21, 2024) (denying certificate of appealability and dismissing appeal). In December 2024, Walker filed a second notice of appeal in the district court, again seeking relief from the district court’s September 2023 order dismissing his § 2254 petition. On April 15, 2025, this court dismissed Walker’s second appeal as both duplicative and untimely.

Walker v. Bishop, No. 24-7209, 2025 WL 1111478 (4th Cir. Apr. 15, 2025). A few days later, Walker filed a third notice of appeal in the district court, resulting in the instant appeal.

In his informal brief, Walker states that he is seeking to appeal an April 15, 2025, order by the district court; however, the April 15 order to which Walker is apparently referring was an order issued by this court dismissing Walker’s second appeal. Walker has twice unsuccessfully sought to appeal the district court’s denial of his § 2254 petition, and he may not do so again. Because this appeal is once again duplicative, we deny a certificate of appealability and dismiss the appeal. We dispense with oral argument because the facts

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and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

DISMISSED