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Parties Involved:
Herbert T. Frazier
Appellant
Michael McCall
Appellee

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 14-7373

HERBERT T. FRAZIER,

Petitioner - Appellant,

v.

MICHAEL MCCALL, Warden,

Respondent - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of 

South Carolina, at Charleston. J. Michelle Childs, District 

Judge. (2:13-cv-02279-JMC)

Submitted: February 24, 2015 Decided: April 2, 2015

Before WILKINSON, AGEE, and HARRIS, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Herbert T. Frazier, Appellant Pro Se. Donald John Zelenka, 

Senior Assistant Attorney General, Columbia, South Carolina, for 

Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Herbert T. Frazier seeks to appeal the district court’s 

order adopting the magistrate judge’s report and recommendation 

and dismissing his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2012) petition. We dismiss 

the appeal for lack of jurisdiction because Frazier did not 

timely file a notice of appeal. 

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). “[T]he timely 

filing of a notice of appeal in a civil case is a jurisdictional 

requirement.” Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S. 205, 214 (2007).

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

August 26, 2014. Frazier did not file a notice of appeal. Nor 

is there any indication that Frazier’s motion for a certificate 

of appealability, which he filed prior to issuance of the 

district court’s order and judgment, was intended to serve as a 

notice of appeal. Because Frazier failed to file a timely 

notice of appeal or to obtain an extension or reopening of the 

appeal period, we deny his motion for a certificate of 

appealability and dismiss the appeal. We dispense with oral 

argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately 

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presented in the materials before this court and argument would 

not aid the decisional process.

DISMISSED

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