Terry Beachum, Petitioner-appellant, v. Parker Evatt; Attorney General of the State of Southcarolina, Respondents-appellees, 48 F.3d 1215 (4th Cir. 1995)
Annotate this CaseTerry Beachum, appellant pro se.
Donald John Zelenka, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Columbia, SC, for appellees.
Before WILKINS and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges, and SPROUSE, Senior Circuit Judge.
PER CURIAM:
Appellant appeals an order of the magistrate judge directing him to show exhaustion of state remedies in this 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1988) proceeding. We dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction because the order is not appealable. This Court may exercise jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1291 (1988), and certain interlocutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (1988); Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b); Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541 (1949). The order here appealed is neither a final order nor an appealable interlocutory or collateral order.*
We therefore deny a certificate of probable cause to appeal and dismiss the appeal as interlocutory. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the Court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED
We also note that Appellant filed his appeal outside the thirty-day appeal period established by Fed. R. App. P. 4(a) (1), failed to obtain an extension of the appeal period within the additional thirty-day period provided by Fed. R. App. P. 4(a) (5), and is not entitled to relief under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a) (6)
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