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Jonathan Griffin v. Harold Clarke, 4th Cir. (2015)
Jonathan Griffin v. Harold Clarke, 4th Cir. (2015)
No. 15-7011
JONATHAN GRIFFIN,
Petitioner Appellant,
v.
HAROLD CLARKE, V.D.O.C. DIRECTOR,
Respondent - Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia, at Alexandria.
Leonie M. Brinkema,
District Judge. (1:15-cv-00658-LMB-TCB)
Submitted:
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Jonathan Griffin seeks to appeal the district courts order
dismissing his 28 U.S.C. 2254 (2012) petition.
not
appealable
unless
circuit
certificate of appealability.
A
certificate
of
justice
or
The order is
judge
issues
appealability
will
not
issue
absent
on
the
demonstrating
district
merits,
that
courts
debatable
or
prisoner
reasonable
assessment
wrong.
Slack
satisfies
jurists
this
would
of
the
v.
McDaniel,
standard
find
constitutional
529
U.S.
by
that
the
claims
is
473,
484
at 484-85.
We have independently reviewed the record and conclude that
Griffin has not made the requisite showing.
Accordingly, we