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Parties Involved:
John Charles Fletcher
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

FILED

United States Court of Appeals

Tenth Circuit

January 5, 2010

Elisabeth A. Shumaker

Clerk of Court

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

 Plaintiff - Appellee, 

v. 

JOHN CHARLES FLETCHER, 

 Defendant - Appellant.

No. 09-6284

(D.C. No. 5:09-CR-00021-M-1)

ORDER

Before KELLY, HARTZ, and O’BRIEN, Circuit Judges.

Defendant John Fletcher appeals the district court’s September 28, 2009 Order entered

in his criminal case that granted Defendant’s unopposed motion for psychiatric examination.

Under Fed. R. App. P. 4(b)(1)(A)(i), the ten-day deadline for filing a notice of appeal

in this criminal case expired on Tuesday, October 13, 2009. See Fed. R. App. P. 26(a)(3).

Defendant filed a pro se notice of appeal in the district court on December 10, 2009, which

was well beyond the ten-day deadline. Although non-compliance with the time limit in Rule

4(b)(1)(A)(i) is not considered jurisdictional, the United States has properly raised the

timeliness issue by filing a motion to dismiss and has requested dismissal of the appeal. See

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

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Accordingly, the United States’ motion to dismiss is GRANTED. The appeal is

DISMISSED.

Entered for the Court,

Elisabeth A. Shumaker, Clerk

Kathleen T. Clifford

Attorney - Deputy Clerk

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