F I L E D
United States Court of Appeals
Tenth Circuit
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
March 21, 2006
TENTH CIRCUIT Elisabeth A. Shumaker
Clerk of Court
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee, No. 05-4223
v. (D.C. Nos. 2:05-CV-202-DAK and
2:04-CR-194-DAK)
DAVID L. LACH, (D. Utah)
Defendant-Appellant.
ORDER
Before KELLY, McKAY, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.
Petitioner, a federal prisoner appearing pro se, seeks habeas relief pursuant
to 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Petitioner pleaded guilty to mail fraud and was sentenced to
thirty months in prison and thirty-six months of supervised release. In March of
2005, Petitioner filed a § 2255 motion to vacate his sentence, challenging his
sentence under Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004). Petitioner also
argued that his counsel was ineffective because he failed to raise the Blakely issue
even though Blakely was decided before sentencing.
The district court denied Petitioner’s § 2255 motion and also his Federal
Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) motion for relief from judgment. Order (D. Utah
Aug. 5, 2005); Memorandum Decision and Order (D. Utah Apr. 28, 2005). The
district court analyzed Petitioner’s Blakely challenge under United States v.
Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005). Memorandum Decision and Order, 3. The district
court denied Petitioner’s challenge because Booker does not apply retroactively to
cases on collateral review. Id.; see also Bey v. United States, 399 F.3d 1266,
1269 (10th Cir. 2005).
The issues Petitioner raises in this appeal are identical to those he brought
before the district court. To grant a certificate of appealability, Petitioner must
make a “substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right.” 28 U.S.C. §
2253(c)(2) (1994). To meet this burden, Petitioner must demonstrate “that
reasonable jurists could debate whether (or, for that matter, agree that) the
petition should have been resolved in a different manner or that the issues
presented were adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed further.” Slack v.
McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000) (quotation omitted).
We have carefully reviewed Petitioner’s brief, the district court’s
disposition, and the record on appeal. Nothing in the facts, the record on appeal,
or Petitioner’s filing raises an issue which meets our standard for the grant of a
certificate of appealability. For substantially the same reasons set forth by the
district court in its orders of April 28, 2005, and August 5, 2005, we cannot say
“that reasonable jurists could debate whether (or, for that matter, agree that) the
petition should have been resolved in a different manner.” Id.
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We DENY Petitioner’s request for a certificate of appealability and
DISMISS the appeal.
Entered for the Court
Monroe G. McKay
Circuit Judge
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