US v. Randy Simpson

Filing 920100416

UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 09-5126

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. RANDY KENDRELL SIMPSON, a/k/a Cheese, Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, at Greensboro. N. Carlton Tilley, Jr., Senior District Judge. (2:96-cr-00011-NCT-1)

Submitted:

April 1, 2010

Decided:

April 16, 2010

Before MOTZ, DUNCAN, and AGEE, Circuit Judges.

Remanded by unpublished per curiam opinion.

G. Godwin Oyewole, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Michael Francis Joseph, Angela Hewlett Miller, Assistant United States Attorneys, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

PER CURIAM: Randy Kendrell Simpson seeks to appeal the district court's order revoking supervised release and imposing a

forty-two month prison term.

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). Although the time limitations imposed by Rule 4(b) are not jurisdictional, United States v. Urutyan, 564 F.3d 679, 685 (4th Cir. 2009), they "must be enforced by th[e] court when properly invoked by the government." 518 F.3d 740, 744 (10th Cir. 2008). United States v. Mitchell, The Government has moved to

dismiss Simpson's appeal as untimely filed. The district court entered its judgment on October 8, 2009. after Simpson filed his notice of appeal on November 19, 2009, the ten-day period expired but within the thirty-day

On December 1, 2009, amendments to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure took effect altering certain time periods and the calculation of specific time periods. The events relevant to this appeal all occurred prior to that date. We therefore apply the rules as they existed before December 1, 2009.

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excusable

neglect

period.

Because

the

notice

of

appeal

was

filed within the excusable neglect period, we defer action on the Government's motion to dismiss and remand the case to the district court for the court to determine whether Simpson has shown excusable neglect or good cause warranting an extension of the ten-day appeal period. The record, as supplemented, will

then be returned to this court for further consideration.

REMANDED

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