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Parties Involved:
Mark Bellamy
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

Lewis F. Powell, Jr. United States Courthouse Annex

1100 E. Main Street, Suite 501

Richmond, Virginia 23219-3517

Patricia S. Connor

Clerk

www.ca4.uscourts.gov Telephone

(804) 916-2700

 August 16, 2007

 TO: Daphne Annette Burns, Esq.

 Alfred William Walker Bethea Jr., Esq.

 Enclosed is a copy of the Court's decision in

 Case Number(s): 06-5094

 PATRICIA S. CONNOR

 CLERK

 Enclosure(s)

 cc: Clerk, U. S. District Court

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UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 06-5094

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

 

 Plaintiff - Appellee,

versus

MARK BELLAMY, a/k/a Big Mark,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of

South Carolina, at Florence. C. Weston Houck, Senior District

Judge. (4:03-cr-00474)

Submitted: August 3, 2007 Decided: August 16, 2007

Before WILKINSON, MICHAEL, and MOTZ, Circuit Judges.

Remanded by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Daphne A. Burns, DAPHNE A. BURNS, L.L.C., Mount Pleasant, South

Carolina, for Appellant. Reginald I. Lloyd, United States

Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, Alfred William Walker Bethea,

Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, Florence, South Carolina,

for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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*The envelope in which the notice was mailed was postmarked

September 6, 2006. Under the “mailbox rule” of Houston v. Lack,

487 U.S. 266 (1988), a document is deemed filed by a prisoner when

it is delivered to prison officials for mailing. 

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PER CURIAM:

Mark Bellamy seeks to appeal his sentence entered upon

resentencing. In criminal cases, the defendant must file the

notice of appeal within ten 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 thirty 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 July 27, 2006.

Bellamy filed the notice of appeal on September 6, 2006, after the

ten-day period expired but within the thirty-day excusable neglect

period.* Because the notice of appeal was filed within the

excusable neglect period, we remand the case to the district court

for the limited purpose of permitting the court to determine

whether Bellamy has shown excusable neglect or good cause

warranting an extension of the ten-day appeal period. The record,

as supplemented, will then be returned to this court for further

consideration.

REMANDED

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