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Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 09-5126 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff – Appellee, v. RANDY KENDRELL SIMPSON, a/k/a Cheese,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. No. 11-5029 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff – Appellee, v. RANDY KENDRELL SIMPSON, a/k/a Cheese, Defendant - Appellant. Appeals 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: Ma
Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 09-5126 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff – Appellee, v. RANDY KENDRELL SIMPSON, a/k/a Cheese,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. No. 11-5029 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff – Appellee, v. RANDY KENDRELL SIMPSON, a/k/a Cheese, Defendant - Appellant. Appeals 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: Mar..
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UNPUBLISHED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.
No. 11-5029
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff – Appellee,
v.
RANDY KENDRELL SIMPSON, a/k/a Cheese,
Defendant - Appellant.
Appeals 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: March 7, 2012 Decided: March 22, 2012
Before MOTZ, DUNCAN, and AGEE, Circuit Judges.
No. 09-5126 dismissed; No. 11-5029 affirmed by unpublished per
curiam opinion.
Lisa S. Costner, LISA S. COSTNER, PA, Winston-Salem, North
Carolina, 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Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
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PER CURIAM:
In these consolidated appeals, Randy Kendrell Simpson
seeks to appeal the district court’s judgment revoking his
supervised release and imposing a forty-two-month prison term
and a forty-eight-month term of supervised release (No. 09-5126)
and appeals the court’s subsequent order denying an extension of
time to appeal the judgment of revocation (No. 11-5029). The
Government has moved to dismiss Simpson’s appeal of the judgment
of revocation as untimely.
In criminal cases, the defendant must file a notice of
appeal within ten days after the entry of judgment. Fed. R.
App. P. 4(b)(1)(A)(i) (applicable to notices of appeal filed
before Dec. 1, 2009). 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).
The district court entered the judgment of revocation
on October 8, 2009. Simpson filed his notice of appeal on
November 19, 2009, outside of the ten-day appeal period but
within the thirty-day excusable neglect period. We previously
remanded this case to the district court for that court to
determine whether Simpson could show good cause or excusable
neglect warranting an extension of the appeal period. On
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remand, the district court concluded that an extension of the
appeal period was not warranted. After a careful review of the
record, we find no abuse of discretion in that decision.
See United States v. Breit,
754 F.2d 526, 529 (4th Cir. 1985)
(stating the standard of review). Accordingly, in No. 11-5029,
we affirm the district court’s order.
Because Simpson failed to file a timely notice of
appeal from the district court’s judgment revoking his
supervised release or to obtain an extension of the appeal
period, we grant the Government’s motion to dismiss and
supplemental motion to dismiss and dismiss the appeal in No.
09-5126. See United States v. Mitchell,
518 F.3d 740, 744
(10th Cir. 2008) (stating that the time limit in Rule 4(b) “must
be enforced by th[e] court when properly invoked by the
government”).
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.
No. 09-5126 DISMISSED;
No. 11-5029 AFFIRMED
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