                             UNPUBLISHED

                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                        FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT


                             No. 13-6875


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                Plaintiff - Appellee,

          v.

IRBY GENE DEWITT,

                Defendant - Appellant.



Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Florence.    Terry L. Wooten, Chief District
Judge. (4:04-cr-00795-TLW-4)


Submitted:   October 22, 2013              Decided:   October 24, 2013


Before WILKINSON, NIEMEYER, and THACKER, Circuit Judges.


Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.


Irby Gene Dewitt, Appellant Pro Se.      Arthur Bradley Parham,
Assistant United States Attorney, Florence, South Carolina, for
Appellee.


Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

              Irby Gene Dewitt seeks to appeal the district court’s

order    denying        his     Fed.     R.       Civ.      P.     60(b)        motion       for

reconsideration of the district court’s order denying relief on

his 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 (West Supp. 2013) motion.                               The order is

not   appealable       unless    a     circuit          justice    or    judge       issues    a

certificate of appealability.              28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(B) (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).                    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 Dewitt 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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