UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 16-6743
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff – Appellee,
v.
OKANG KAREEN ROCHELLE,
Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle
District of North Carolina, at Greensboro. William L. Osteen,
Jr., Chief District Judge. (1:05-cr-00112-WO-1; 1:12-cv-01121-
WO-JLW)
Submitted: March 9, 2017 Decided: March 21, 2017
Before GREGORY, Chief Judge, and SHEDD and AGEE, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Okang Kareen Rochelle, Appellant Pro Se. Angela Hewlett Miller,
Anand P. Ramaswamy, Assistant United States Attorneys,
Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Okang Kareen Rochelle seeks to appeal the district court’s
orders denying relief on his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (2012) and Fed. R.
Civ. P. 59(e) motions. The orders are 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
Rochelle 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
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contentions are adequately presented in the materials before
this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED
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