Case Explained: RASHEED TAMIR GLOVER v. SHANE JACKSON, Warden

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Filed: 2026-06-23 The Fourth Circuit denied a certificate of appealability and dismissed the appeal because the petitioner failed to make the requisite “substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right” under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c). The court applied the standard from *Buck v. Davis*, which requires a prisoner to demonstrate that reasonable jurists could find the district court’s assessment of the constitutional claims debatable or wrong when relief is denied on the merits, or that both the procedural ruling and the underlying claim are debatable if denied on procedural grounds. After independently reviewing the record, the court concluded Glover did not meet this standard, resulting in the dismissal of the appeal without oral argument. Do It For The Case Law is a news reporting service. Nothing in this episode constitutes legal advice.