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Parties Involved:
Warden Reynolds
Appellee
Warren Russell
Appellant

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 16-6694

WARREN RUSSELL,

Petitioner - Appellant,

v.

WARDEN REYNOLDS,

Respondent - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of 

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

Judge. (9:14-cv-04035-JMC)

Submitted: October 20, 2016 Decided: November 16, 2016

Before MOTZ, TRAXLER, and KEENAN, Circuit Judges.

Remanded by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Warren Russell, Appellant Pro Se. Donald John Zelenka, Senior 

Assistant Attorney General, Melody Jane Brown, Assistant 

Attorney General, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Warren Russell seeks to appeal the district court’s order

adopting the magistrate judge’s recommendation and denying 

relief on Russell’s 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2012) petition. The 

notice of appeal was received in the district court shortly 

after expiration of the appeal period. Because Russell is 

incarcerated, the notice is considered filed as of the date it 

was properly delivered to prison officials for mailing to the 

court. Fed. R. App. P. 4(c)(1); Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266 

(1988). The record does not reveal when Russell gave the notice 

of appeal to prison officials for mailing. Accordingly, we 

remand the case for the limited purpose of allowing the district 

court to obtain this information from the parties and to 

determine whether the filing was timely under Fed. R. App. P. 

4(c)(1) and Houston v. Lack. The record, as supplemented, will 

then be returned to this court for further consideration.

REMANDED

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