United States v. Nance ( 1999 )


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  •                             UNPUBLISHED
    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
    FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
    No. 99-7341
    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
    Plaintiff - Appellee,
    versus
    JIMMY LAWRENCE NANCE,
    Defendant - Appellant.
    Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western Dis-
    trict of Virginia, at Roanoke.    James C. Turk, District Judge.
    (CR-92-135-R)
    Submitted:   December 16, 1999         Decided:     December 30, 1999
    Before MURNAGHAN and MOTZ, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Cir-
    cuit Judge.
    Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
    Jimmy Lawrence Nance, Appellant Pro Se. Thomas Linn Eckert, Assis-
    tant United States Attorney, Roanoke, Virginia, for Appellee.
    Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
    See Local Rule 36(c).
    PER CURIAM:
    Jimmy Lawrence Nance seeks to appeal the district court’s
    order denying Nance’s Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) motion, or in the
    alternative, motion for reopening his previous motion filed pur-
    suant to 
    28 U.S.C.A. § 2255
     (West. Supp. 1999).      We dismiss the
    appeal for lack of jurisdiction because Nance’s notice of appeal
    was not timely filed.
    Parties are accorded sixty days after entry of the district
    court’s final judgment or order to note an appeal, see Fed. R. App.
    P. 4(b)(1), unless the district court extends the appeal period
    under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(5) or reopens the appeal period under
    Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(6).      This appeal period is “mandatory and
    jurisdictional.”     Browder v. Director, Dep’t of Corrections, 
    434 U.S. 257
    , 264 (1978) (quoting United States v. Robinson, 
    361 U.S. 220
    , 229 (1960)).
    The district court’s order was entered on the docket on Feb-
    ruary 11, 1999.     Nance’s notice of appeal was filed on September
    30, 1999.     Because Nance failed to file a timely notice of appeal
    or to obtain an extension or reopening of the appeal period, we
    dismiss the appeal.     We dispense with oral argument because the
    facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the mate-
    rials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional
    process.
    DISMISSED
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Document Info

Docket Number: 99-7341

Filed Date: 12/30/1999

Precedential Status: Non-Precedential

Modified Date: 10/30/2014