Opinion
20-7560 20-6985 20-7568 20-7573 20-7591 20-7598 20-7599
07-23-2021
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. MARVIN RASHAAD CUMMINGS, a/k/a Ray Ray, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. RANDOLPH LEVY HYMAN, JR., Defendant - Appellant. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. THOMAS LAMONT JONES, Defendant - Appellant. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. RAPHAEL DAVONNE POWELL, Defendant - Appellant. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. JOSHUA HUNT, Defendant - Appellant. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. MARCUS GEROME HYDE, Defendant - Appellant. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. KENDRICUS MARQUELL WILLIAMS, Defendant - Appellant.
Eric Joseph Brignac, Jennifer Claire Leisten, Assistant Federal Public Defenders, OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL PUBLIC DEFENDER, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellants. John Everett Harris, Michael Gordon James, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.
UNPUBLISHED
Submitted: July 15, 2021
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at Raleigh. Terrence W. Boyle, District Judge. (5:12-cr-00353-BO-2; 5:19-cv-00195-BO)
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at Elizabeth City. Louise W. Flanagan, District Judge. (2:13-cr-00019-FL-1; 2:16-cv-00045-FL)
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at Raleigh. Louise W. Flanagan, District Judge. (5:09-cr-00093-FL-1; 5:16-cv-00335-FL)
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at Raleigh. Louise W. Flanagan, District Judge. (5:08-cr-00328-FL-1; 5:16-cv-00246-FL)
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at Wilmington. Louise W. Flanagan, District Judge. (7:09-cr-00033-FL-1; 7:16-cv-00235-FL)
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at Wilmington. Louise W. Flanagan, District Judge. (7:11-cr-00038-FL-2; 7:16-cv-00208-FL)
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at Raleigh. Louise W. Flanagan, District Judge. (5:08-cr-00174-FL-1; 5:16-cv-00333-FL)
Eric Joseph Brignac, Jennifer Claire Leisten, Assistant Federal Public Defenders, OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL PUBLIC DEFENDER, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellants.
John Everett Harris, Michael Gordon James, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.
Before MOTZ and KING, Circuit Judges, and SHEDD, Senior Circuit Judge.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Marvin Rashaad Cummings, Randolph Levy Hyman, Jr., Thomas Lamont Jones, Raphael Davonne Powell, Joshua Hunt, Marcus Gerome Hyde, and Kendricus Marquell Williams (collectively, "Appellants") seek to appeal the district courts' orders denying relief on their 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motions. The orders are not appealable unless a circuit justice or judge issues a certificate of appealability. See 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(B). 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). When the district court denies relief on the merits, a prisoner satisfies this standard by demonstrating that reasonable jurists could find the district court's assessment of the constitutional claims debatable or wrong. See Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759, 773-74 (2017). 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. Gonzalez v. Thaler, 565 U.S. 134, 140-41 (2012) (citing Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000)).
We have independently reviewed the record and conclude that Appellants have not made the requisite showing, as their claims are foreclosed by this court's decision in United States v. Mathis, 932 F.3d 242 (4th Cir. 2019). Accordingly, we deny Appellants' motion for a certificate of appealability and dismiss the appeals. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED