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Gregory Driver v. Harold Clarke, 4th Cir. (2016)
Gregory Driver v. Harold Clarke, 4th Cir. (2016)
Gregory Driver v. Harold Clarke, 4th Cir. (2016)
No. 16-6103
Director,
Virginia
Department
of
Respondent Appellee,
and
BILL WATSON; PORTSMOUTH CIRCUIT COURT,
Respondents.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia, at Norfolk. Raymond A. Jackson, District
Judge. (2:14-cv-00590-RAJ-LRL)
Submitted:
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Gregory Wardell Driver seeks to appeal the district courts
order accepting the recommendation of the magistrate judge and
denying relief on his 28 U.S.C. 2254 (2012) petition.
The
certificate
(2012).
of
appealability.
28
U.S.C.
2253(c)(1)(A)
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
Driver has not made the requisite showing.
Accordingly, we deny
dispense
contentions
with
are
oral
argument
adequately
because
presented
in
the
facts
and
the
materials
legal
before
this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED
We note
November 2015.
that
Drivers
supervised
probation
ended
in