Rawle v. Wyoming Department of Corrections State Penitentiary Warden

ORDER DENYING CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY*

JEROME A. HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

Brian Dewayne Rawle, a Wyoming state prisoner, seeks a certificate of appealability (“COA”) to challenge the district court’s denial of his application for a writ of habe-as corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. We exercise jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1291 and 2253(a) and conclude that Mr. Rawle has failed to make a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right. Thus, we deny the request for a COA and dismiss the appeal.

BACKGROUND

In April 2005, a jury convicted Mr. Rawle of felony murder, attempted…