Alastair P. Sims v. United States

ORDER

Alastair Sims, a federal prisoner, seeks to appeal from a district court order denying Sims a certificate of appealability in this motion to vacate sentence case. See 28 U.S.C. § 2255. We conclude that this court lacks jurisdiction over Sims’s appeal.

On August 4, 2000, the district court entered a judgment denying Sims’s motion for § 2255 relief. Sims filed a notice of appeal from the judgment, and that appeal is currently before the court docketed as Case No. 00-4081. Subsequently, the district court denied Sims’s application for a certificate of appealability. See 28 U.S.C. §…