US v. Herbert Lewis Turner, No. 07-4240 (4th Cir. 2009)
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UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 07-4240 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. HERBERT LEWIS TURNER, Defendant - Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, at Harrisonburg. Samuel G. Wilson, District Judge. (5:01-cr-30062-sgw) Submitted: March 18, 2009 Decided: April 15, 2009 Before TRAXLER and KING, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge. Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Craig W. Sampson, BARNES & DIEHL, PC, Chesterfield, Virginia, for Appellant. Nancy Spodick Healey, Assistant United States Attorney, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Appellee. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. PER CURIAM: Herbert Lewis Turner seeks to appeal the district court s order revoking his supervised release and sentencing him to eighteen months imprisonment, followed eighteen-month term of supervised release. entered judgment on January 18, 2007. appeal on February 20, 2007. 1 by an additional The district court Turner filed a notice of Because Turner failed to file a timely notice of appeal, 2 we remanded the case to the district court for the limited purpose of determining whether Turner had shown excusable neglect or good cause to warrant an extension of time to file a notice of appeal. Despite an order from the district court directing Turner to submit a response explaining the reason he failed to file a timely notice of appeal, Turner filed no explanation. The court accordingly found that Turner failed to demonstrate excusable neglect or good cause. See United States v. Turner, 1 The envelope in which the notice was mailed was postmarked February 20, 2007. Under the mailbox rule of Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266 (1988), a document is deemed filed by a prisoner when it is delivered to prison officials for mailing. 2 In criminal cases, the defendant must file the notice of appeal within ten days after the entry of judgment. Fed. R. App. P. 4(b)(1)(A). With or without a motion, upon a showing of excusable neglect or good cause, the district court may grant an extension of up to thirty days to file a notice of appeal. Fed. R. App. P. 4(b)(4); United States v. Reyes, 759 F.2d 351, 353 (4th Cir. 1985). 2 No. 5:01-cr-30062-sgw (W.D. Va. Jan. 13, 2009). now before Turner s this failure court to for file a final disposition. timely notice of The matter is In light appeal of and the district court s reasonable determination that Turner failed to demonstrate excusable neglect or good cause for his late appeal, we dismiss the appeal as untimely. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal before contentions the court are adequately and argument presented would not in aid the the materials decisional process. DISMISSED 3
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