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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
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UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 07-7695

ERICKO TRAVELL HARLEY,

Petitioner - Appellant,

v.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA; STAN BURTT, Warden of Lieber

Correctional Institution,

Respondents - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of

South Carolina, at Beaufort. David C. Norton, District Judge.

(9:07-cv-01750-DCN)

Submitted: March 25, 2008 Decided: March 28, 2008

Before MOTZ, KING, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Ericko Travell Harley, Appellant Pro Se.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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*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 deliverd to prison officials for mailing to the

court. See Fed. R. App. P. 4(c); Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266

(1988).

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PER CURIAM:

Ericko Travell Harley seeks to appeal the district

court’s order adopting the report and recommendation of the

magistrate judge and dismissing without prejudice his 28 U.S.C.

§ 2241 (2000) 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). This appeal period is “mandatory

and jurisdictional.” Browder v. Dir., Dep’t of Corr., 434 U.S.

257, 264 (1978) (quoting United States v. Robinson, 361 U.S. 220,

229 (1960)). 

The district court’s order was entered on the docket on

September 4, 2007. The notice of appeal was filed on November 2,

2007.* Because Harley failed to file a timely notice of appeal or

to obtain an extension or reopening of the appeal period, we

dismiss the appeal. We dispense with oral argument because the

facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the

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materials before the court and argument would not aid the

decisional process.

DISMISSED

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