Notice: Fourth Circuit Local Rule 36(c) States That Citation of Unpublished Dispositions is Disfavored Except for Establishing Res Judicata, Estoppel, or the Law of the Case and Requires Service of Copies of Cited Unpublished Dispositions of the Fourth Circuit.albert Charles Burgess, Jr., Petitioner-appellant, v. Parker Evatt; State of South Carolina, Respondents-appellees, 85 F.3d 615 (4th Cir. 1996)

Appellant seeks to appeal the district court's orders declining to reconsider the dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1988) petition pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) and Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e). We have reviewed the record and the district court's orders and find no reversible error. Accordingly, we deny a certificate of probable cause to appeal and dismiss the appeal on the reasoning of the district court. Burgess v. Evatt, No. CA-88-2828-3-21 (D.S.C. Feb. 16, 1995; Mar. 30, 1995).

Further, to the extent that Appellant seeks to again have this court review the propriety of the 1990 dismissal of his § 2254 petition, see Burgess v. Evatt, No. 90-6864(L) (4th Cir. Apr. 3, 1991) (unpublished), Appellant's notice of appeal is untimely. Fed. R. App. P. 4(a) (1) & (4). The time periods established by Fed. R. App. P. 4 are "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 entered its order on July 16, 1990; Appellant's notice of appeal was filed on April 28, 1995. Appellant's failure to note a timely appeal or obtain an extension of the appeal period deprives this court of jurisdiction to consider this case.

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.