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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff—Appellee, v. Rickey MAZIQUE, Defendant—Appellant.
    No. 05-6597.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
    Submitted Aug. 25, 2005.
    Decided Sept. 2, 2005.
    Rickey Mazique, Appellant pro se. Alfred William Walker Bethea, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, Florence, South Carolina, for Appellee.
    Before TRAXLER and SHEDD, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.
    Dismissed by unpublished PER CURIAM opinion.
    Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. See Local Rule 36(c).
   PER CURIAM.

Rickey Mazique seeks to appeal from his judgment of conviction, which order was entered by the district court on April 4, 1996. Mazique’s notice of appeal was filed on March 21, 2005. In criminal cases, the defendant must file his notice of appeal within ten days of the entry of judgment. Fed. R.App. P. 4(b)(1)(A). With or without a motion, the court may grant an extension of time to file of up to thirty days upon a showing of excusable neglect. Fed. R.App. P. 4(b)(4). The time periods established by Rule 4 are “mandatory and jurisdictional.” Browder v. Director, Dep’t of Corrections, 434 U.S. 257, 264, 98 S.Ct. 556, 54 L.Ed.2d 521 (1978) (quoting United States v. Robinson, 361 U.S. 220, 229, 80 S.Ct. 282, 4 L.Ed.2d 259 (1960)). We dismiss this appeal for lack of jurisdiction because we find Mazique’s notice of appeal to be untimely. 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.

DISMISSED 
      
       We note also that Mazique previously appealed this same judgment of conviction, and this court affirmed his conviction and sentence by opinion decided April 11, 1997.