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Parties Involved:
John Bruce Boyd
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

APR2 2 1992 

ROBERT L. HOECF'...EE 

Clerk 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellee, 

v. 

JOHN BRUCE BOYD, 

Defendant-Appellant. 

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No. 91-6393 

(D.C . No. CR-89-240-R) 

(W.D. Oklahoma) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before MOORE, TACBA, 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 this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 

34 (a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. The cause is therefore ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

After failing to appeal from the imposition of sentence 

following his plea of guilty to bank robbery and use of a firearm 

during the commission of a crime of violence, defendant filed in 

*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 . 

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the district court a pleading he denominated as a "Motion to 

Correct Present Sentence Pursuant to Title 18 U.S.C. Section 

3742(a) (2) (3) 0 II The district court denied the motion on the 

ground S 3742(a) pertains only to appeal in the court of appeals 

and does not vest the district court with jurisdiction to 

"correct" a sentence. The district court was right. 

The statute defendant sought to invoke vests the appellate 

court with jurisdiction to entertain an appeal of a sentence. It 

provides no remedy in the district court, and defendant's attempt 

to seek one was without foundation. 

Even if the district court had jurisdiction to entertain 

defendant's motion, his failure to file a timely notice of appeal 

deprives this court of jurisdiction over the appeal. A notice of 

appeal filed by a defendant in~ criminal case must be filed in 

the district court within ten days of the order appealed from. 

Fed. R. App. P. 4(b). Defendant's notice was not filed until 

twenty-eight days after the district court's order, leaving us 

with no choice but to dismiss this appeal. 

Leonard, 937 F.2d 494 (10th Cir. 1991). 

DISMISSED. 

United States v. 

Entered for the Court 

John P. Moore 

Circuit Judge 

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