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Parties Involved:
United States of America
Appellee
Arthur Tracy Vick
Appellant

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 15-6457

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

 Plaintiff – Appellee,

v.

ARTHUR TRACY VICK,

 Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern 

District of North Carolina, at Raleigh. W. Earl Britt, Senior

District Judge. (5:11-cr-00352-BR-1; 5:14-cv-00359-BR)

Submitted: August 27, 2015 Decided: August 31, 2015

Before GREGORY, AGEE, and THACKER, Circuit Judges.

Remanded by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Arthur Tracy Vick, Appellant Pro Se. Jennifer P. May-Parker, 

Assistant United States Attorney, Raleigh, North Carolina, for 

Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Arthur Tracy Vick seeks to appeal the district court’s 

order denying relief on his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (2012) motion. The 

notice of appeal and motion for a certificate of appealability 

were received in the district court after expiration of the 

appeal period. Because Vick is incarcerated, the notice of 

appeal 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 Vick 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 Rule 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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