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Parties Involved:
Olanitan Michael Olaniyi
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 16-7041

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff - Appellee,

v.

OLANITAN MICHAEL OLANIYI, a/k/a Richard Allman, a/k/a Thomas 

Duval, a/k/a Gabriel Palmer, a/k/a Michael Salman, a/k/a 

Michael Stanley,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern 

District of North Carolina, at Greenville. W. Earl Britt, 

Senior District Judge. (4:13-cr-00072-BR-1)

Submitted: December 12, 2016 Decided: December 14, 2016

Before SHEDD, AGEE, and WYNN, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Olanitan Michael Olaniyi, Appellant Pro Se. Stephen Aubrey 

West, Assistant United States Attorney, Susan Beth Menzer, Seth 

Morgan Wood, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Raleigh, 

North Carolina, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Olanitan Michael Olaniyi seeks to appeal his 2014 criminal 

judgment imposed following his guilty plea to conspiracy to 

commit mail, wire, and bank fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 

§ 1349 (2012), and aggravated identity theft, and aiding and 

abetting the same, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1028A, 2 (2012). 

In criminal cases, the defendant must file the notice of 

appeal within 14 days after the entry of judgment. Fed. R. App. 

P. 4(b)(1)(A). With or without a motion, upon a showing of 

excusable neglect or good cause, the district court may grant an 

extension of up to 30 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 judgment on August 8, 2014. 

Olaniyi filed his notice of appeal, at the earliest, on August 

1, 2016, nearly two years after entry of the criminal judgment.1 

Because Olaniyi failed to file a timely notice of appeal or to 

obtain an extension of the appeal period, we dismiss the appeal 

 1 This is the date that Olaniyi states that he placed the 

notice of appeal in the prison mail system. A pro se prisoner’s 

notice of appeal is considered filed at the moment it is 

delivered to prison authorities for mailing to the court. Fed. 

R. App. P. 4(c); Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 276 (1988). We 

also note that Olaniyi received a counseled direct appeal, and 

the district court’s judgment was affirmed on March 19, 2015. 

United States v. Olaniyi, 598 F. App’x 180 (4th Cir. 2015) (No. 

14-4621).

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as untimely.2 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

 2 We note that the appeal period in a criminal case is not a 

jurisdictional provision, but, rather, a claim-processing rule. 

United States v. Urutyan, 564 F.3d 679, 685 (4th Cir. 2009). 

Because Olaniyi’s appeal is inordinately late, and its 

consideration is not in the best interest of judicial economy, 

we exercise our inherent power to dismiss it. United States v. 

Mitchell, 518 F.3d 740, 744, 750 (10th Cir. 2008).

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