                              UNPUBLISHED

                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                        FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT


                              No. 09-6468


WILLIE J. OWENS,

                  Petitioner - Appellant,

             v.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA; CHARLES MOLONY CONDON, Attorney
General, State of South Carolina,

                  Respondents - Appellees.



Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Greenville. C. Weston Houck, Senior District
Judge. (6:02-cv-00261-CWH)


Submitted:    July 23, 2009                  Decided:   July 29, 2009


Before WILKINSON and AGEE, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior
Circuit Judge.


Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.


Willie J. Owens, Appellant Pro Se.


Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:

               Willie J. Owens seeks to appeal the district court’s

order denying relief on his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2006) petition.

The order is not appealable unless a circuit justice or judge

issues     a    certificate          of    appealability.            See     28     U.S.C.

§ 2253(c)(1) (2006).            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)       (2006).        A

prisoner       satisfies       this        standard        by    demonstrating          that

reasonable       jurists      would       find    that     any    assessment       of     the

constitutional        claims    by    the    district       court    is    debatable       or

wrong and that any dispositive procedural ruling by the district

court is likewise debatable.                     See Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537

U.S. 322, 336-38 (2003); Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484

(2000); Rose v. Lee, 252 F.3d 676, 683-84 (4th Cir. 2001).                                 We

have independently reviewed the record and conclude that Owens

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 the

court and argument would not aid the decisional process.



                                                                               DISMISSED



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