Shain Collins v. Harold Clarke

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AMENDED OPINION filed amending and superseding opiniondated 03/20/2015. Originating case number: 7:13-cv-00474-GEC Copies to all parties. Mailed to: Shain Collins. [14-7682]

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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 14-7682

SHAIN CLAUDE COLLINS,
Petitioner - Appellant,
v.
HAROLD W. CLARKE, Director, Department of Corrections,
Respondent - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western
District of Virginia, at Roanoke.
Glen E. Conrad, Chief
District Judge. (7:13-cv-00474-GEC)

Submitted:

March 17, 2015
Amended:

Decided:

March 20, 2015

March 20, 2015

Before WILKINSON and KING, Circuit Judges, and DAVIS, Senior
Circuit Judge.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Shain Claude Collins, Appellant Pro Se.
Craig Stallard,
Assistant Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Shain Claude Collins seeks to appeal the district court’s
order

dismissing

his

28

U.S.C.

§ 2254

(2012)

petition.

We

dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction because the notice
of appeal was not timely filed.
Parties are accorded thirty days after the entry of the
district court’s final judgment or order to note an appeal, Fed.
R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A), 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).

“[T]he timely

filing of a notice of appeal in a civil case is a jurisdictional
requirement.”

Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S. 205, 214 (2007).

The district court’s order was entered on the docket on
September 24, 2014.

The notice of appeal was filed on November

10, 2014. * Because Collins failed to file a timely notice of
appeal or to obtain an extension or reopening of the appeal
period, we deny leave to proceed in forma pauperis and dismiss
the appeal.

We dispense with oral argument because the facts

and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials

*

For the purpose of this appeal, we assume that the date
appearing on the notice of appeal is the earliest date it could
have been properly delivered to prison officials for mailing to
the court. Fed. R. App. P. 4(c); Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266
(1988).

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argument

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the

decisional

process.
DISMISSED

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