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Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 15-6486 VEOTIS HARDING, Petitioner - Appellant, v. JOHN W. OWENS, Respondent - Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at Raleigh. Terrence W. Boyle, District Judge. (5:13-hc-02212-BO) Submitted: August 27, 2015 Decided: September 3, 2015 Before WILKINSON and FLOYD, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge. Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Veotis
Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 15-6486 VEOTIS HARDING, Petitioner - Appellant, v. JOHN W. OWENS, Respondent - Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at Raleigh. Terrence W. Boyle, District Judge. (5:13-hc-02212-BO) Submitted: August 27, 2015 Decided: September 3, 2015 Before WILKINSON and FLOYD, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge. Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Veotis H..
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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 15-6486
VEOTIS HARDING,
Petitioner - Appellant,
v.
JOHN W. OWENS,
Respondent - Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, at Raleigh. Terrence W. Boyle,
District Judge. (5:13-hc-02212-BO)
Submitted: August 27, 2015 Decided: September 3, 2015
Before WILKINSON and FLOYD, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior
Circuit Judge.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Veotis Harding, Appellant Pro Se. Seth Morgan Wood, OFFICE OF
THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Raleigh, North Carolina, for
Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Veotis Harding seeks to appeal the district court’s order
construing his “motion of actual innocence” as one under 28
U.S.C. § 2255 (2012), and docketing it within his criminal case.
The motion is proceeding in Harding’s criminal docket. * This
court may exercise jurisdiction only over final orders, 28
U.S.C. § 1291 (2012), and certain interlocutory and collateral
orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (2012); Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b); Cohen v.
Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp.,
337 U.S. 541, 545-46 (1949). The
order Harding seeks to appeal is neither a final order nor an
appealable interlocutory or collateral order. Accordingly, we
dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. We dispense with
oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are
adequately presented in the materials before this court and
argument would not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED
*Although the clerk’s order accompanying the district
court’s order states that “respondent’s motion to dismiss is
granted and this action is hereby dismissed,” the motion is
proceeding under Harding’s criminal docket. Thus, the clerk’s
order is erroneous.
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