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Parties Involved:
Aldo Erives-Lopez
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

 Plaintiff - Appellee, 

v. 

ALDO ERIVES-LOPEZ, 

 Defendant - Appellant. 

No. 15-2024 

(D.C. No. 1:12-CR-01545-WJ-1) 

(D. N.M.) 

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ORDER

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Before BRISCOE, Chief Judge, HARTZ, and MORITZ, Circuit Judges. 

_________________________________ 

The defendant Aldo Erives-Lopez appeals the district court’s final judgment of 

conviction. The government filed a motion to dismiss the appeal because the notice of 

appeal was not filed timely. The defendant was provided an opportunity to respond to the 

motion to dismiss, but did not submit a response. Upon consideration, the government’s 

motion to dismiss is granted. 

A notice of appeal from an order entered in a criminal case must be filed within 14 

days after entry of the order being appealed. Fed. R. App. P. 4(b)(1)(A)(i). While not 

jurisdictional, the timeliness requirement of Rule 4(b) is an inflexible claim processing 

rule. United States v. Garduño, 506 F.3d 1287, 1290-91 (10th Cir. 2007). 

FILED 

United States Court of Appeals 

Tenth Circuit 

April 8, 2015

Elisabeth A. Shumaker 

Clerk of Court

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In this case, final judgment was entered September 5, 2014. The deadline to file a 

notice of appeal from the judgment was September 19, 2014. The notice of appeal was 

not filed until February 6, 2015, more than four months after the filing deadline expired. 

The government has filed a motion correctly arguing that the notice of appeal was 

untimely filed. The defendant has not submitted any argument to the contrary, nor can 

we conceive of any. Accordingly, the government’s motion to dismiss the appeal must 

be granted. United States v. Mitchell, 518 F.3d 740, 744 (10th Cir. 2008) (“[T]he time 

bar in Rule 4(b) must be enforced by this court when properly invoked by the 

government.” (citing Garduño, 506 F.3d at 1290-91)). 

APPEAL DISMISSED. 

Entered for the Court 

ELISABETH A. SHUMAKER, Clerk 

by: Lara Smith 

 Counsel to the Clerk 

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