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Nature of Suit Code: 510
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Vacate Sentence
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

IYlAR 11991 

~OBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellee, 

v. 

JOHNNIE LEE ADAMS, also known as 

Squirrel, 

Defendant-Appellant. 

) 

) 

) 

) 

) Nos. 88-2969 

) & 

) 89-6027 

) (D.C. No. CR-85-20-P) 

) (W.D. Okla.) 

) 

) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before ANDERSON, TACHA, and BRORBY, Circuit Judges. 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of these appeals. See Fed. R. App. P. 

34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. 

submitted without oral argument. 

The cases are therefore ordered 

Defendant appeals from two orders of the district court. The 

first order denied as successive his motion, filed pursuant to 28 

U.S.C. § 2255, to vacate, set aside, or correct sentence . (appeal 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

Appellate Case: 88-2969 Document: 010110031060 Date Filed: 03/01/1991 Page: 1 
No. 88-2969). The second order denied leave to appeal in forma 

pauperis (appeal No. 89-6027). 

The district court entered its order denying section 2255 

relief on September 30, 1988. Defendant filed his notice of 

appeal on December 1, 1988, sixty-two days later. 

Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(l) provides that a 

notice of appeal shall be filed sixty days after entry of the 

district court's order when the United States is a party. Upon a 

showing of good cause or excusable neglect, the district court may 

extend the time for filing a notice of appeal upon motion filed 

not later than thirty days after the sixty-day time period. Fed. 

R. App. P. 4(a)(5); Mayfield v. United States Parole Comm'n, 647 

F.2d 1053, 1055 (10th Cir. 1981). Failure to make the motion 

before the end of the thirty-day grace period extinguishes the 

right to appeal. Id. 

Defendant has filed no motion to extend the time for filing a 

notice of appeal, and the time for doing so has now expired beyond 

revival. See Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(5). Compliance with filing 

requirements is mandatory and jurisdictional. 

Director, Dep't of Corrections, 434 U.S. 257, 

Accordingly, this court does not have jurisdiction 

appeal No. 88-2969. 

Browder v. 

264 (1978). 

to consider 

Defendant also appeals the district court's order denying him 

leave to appeal in forma pauperis. Because this court lacks 

jurisdiction over appeal No. 88-2969, appeal No. 89-6027 is moot. 

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Appeal No. 88-2969 is DISMISSED for lack of jurisdiction. 

Appeal No. 89-6027 is DISMISSED as moot. 

The mandates shall issue forthwith. 

Entered for the Court 

Wade Brorby 

Circuit Judge 

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