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Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 18-6746 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. DARIUS DONNELL FREEMAN, Defendant - Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, at Statesville. Robert J. Conrad, Jr., District Judge. (5:13-cr-00080-RJC-DSC-1; 5:18-cv- 00013-RJC) Submitted: October 18, 2018 Decided: October 23, 2018 Before GREGORY, Chief Judge, KEENAN, Circuit Judge, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit
Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 18-6746 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. DARIUS DONNELL FREEMAN, Defendant - Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, at Statesville. Robert J. Conrad, Jr., District Judge. (5:13-cr-00080-RJC-DSC-1; 5:18-cv- 00013-RJC) Submitted: October 18, 2018 Decided: October 23, 2018 Before GREGORY, Chief Judge, KEENAN, Circuit Judge, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit ..
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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 18-6746
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
v.
DARIUS DONNELL FREEMAN,
Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, at
Statesville. Robert J. Conrad, Jr., District Judge. (5:13-cr-00080-RJC-DSC-1; 5:18-cv-
00013-RJC)
Submitted: October 18, 2018 Decided: October 23, 2018
Before GREGORY, Chief Judge, KEENAN, Circuit Judge, and HAMILTON, Senior
Circuit Judge.
Dismissed and remanded by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Darius Donnell Freeman, Appellant Pro Se.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Darius Donnell Freeman seeks to appeal the district court’s order denying relief on
his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (2012) motion. 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). “Ordinarily, a district court order is not final until it has resolved all claims
as to all parties.” Porter v. Zook,
803 F.3d 694, 696 (4th Cir. 2015) (internal quotation
marks omitted). “[I]f it appears from the record that the district court has not adjudicated
all of the issues in a case, then there is no final order.”
Id. (applying rule to habeas cases);
Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a)(1)(A) (permitting party to amend complaint once as matter of right
before responsive pleading is served).
Upon review of the record, we conclude that the district court did not rule on
Freeman’s motion for leave to amend his § 2255 motion, which was docketed in his civil
case, No. 5:18-cv-00013-RJC, prior to the entry of the district court’s order denying § 2255
relief. Thus, the order Freeman seeks to appeal is neither a final order nor an appealable
interlocutory or collateral order. See
Porter, 803 F.3d at 696.
Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction and remand the case to
the district court to consider Freeman’s motion for leave to amend. We deny Freeman’s
motion for a certificate of appealability as unnecessary. 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 AND REMANDED
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