Alexander Cameron v. Jason Miyares

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• Decided: December 10, 2024
• Docket: 24-6913
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

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UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 24-6913

ALEXANDER CAMERON,

Petitioner - Appellant,

v.

JASON S. MIYARES, Attorney General,

Respondent - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Alexandria. Patricia Tolliver Giles, District Judge. (1:24-cv-00847-PTG-IDD)

Submitted: December 5, 2024 Decided: December 10, 2024

Before GREGORY and RICHARDSON, Circuit Judges, and FLOYD, Senior Circuit Judge.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Alexander Cameron, Appellant Pro Se.

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PER CURIAM:

Alexander Cameron appeals the district court’s order construing his petition for a

writ of mandamus as a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition and dismissing it as successive and

unauthorized. * We have reviewed the record and discern no reversible error. See Shoop

v. Twyford, 596 U.S. 811, 820-21 (2022) (explaining that All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651,

cannot be used to circumvent statutory rules governing federal habeas proceedings);

Gonzalez v. Crosby, 545 U.S. 524, 530-32 (2005) (describing when postconviction filing

should be construed as habeas petition); In re Williams, 364 F.3d 235, 238 (4th Cir. 2004)

(recognizing that only court of appeals can grant authorization to file second or successive

§ 2254 petition). Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s order. Cameron v. Miyares,

No. 1:24-cv-00847-PTG-IDD (E.D. Va. Aug. 15, 2024). 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.

AFFIRMED

* A certificate of appealability is not required to review the district court’s order. See United States v. McRae, 793 F.3d 392, 400 (4th Cir. 2015).