                              UNPUBLISHED

                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                        FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT


                              No. 09-7975


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                  Plaintiff - Appellee,

             v.

VERNELL A. JEFFRIES,

                  Defendant - Appellant.



Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
Maryland, at Baltimore.    Benson Everett Legg, Chief District
Judge. (1:02-cr-00393-BEL-1; 1:09-cv-01967-BEL)


Submitted:    December 10, 2009            Decided:   December 18, 2009


Before GREGORY and SHEDD, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior
Circuit Judge.


Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.


Vernell A. Jeffries, Appellant Pro Se. Paul M. Tiao, Assistant
United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.


Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

               Vernell    A.     Jeffries       seeks      to    appeal      the    district

court’s order denying relief on his 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 (West

Supp.    2009)    motion.         The    order       is   not     appealable        unless    a

circuit justice or judge issues a certificate of appealability.

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.                   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 Jeffries 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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