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Parties Involved:
Woodrow Gene Stick
Appellant
Randall G. Workman
Appellee

Document Text:

FILED

United States Court of Appeals

Tenth Circuit

April 9, 2008

Elisabeth A. Shumaker

Clerk of Court

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

WOODROW GENE STICK, 

 Petitioner - Appellant, 

v. 

RANDALL G. WORKMAN, Warden, 

 Respondent - Appellee.

No. 08-7022

(D.C. No. 6:07-CV-00050-FHS-KEW)

(E.D. Okla.)

ORDER

Before TACHA, BRISCOE, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.

On December 6, 2007, the district court entered an order dismissing Woodrow

Stick’s 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition. Final judgment was entered December 7,

2007. Petitioner Stick, proceeding pro se, appeals.

This appeal is jurisdictionally defective. The thirty-day deadline under Fed.

R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A) for the filing of a timely notice of appeal in this civil case

expired on Monday, January 7, 2008. See Fed. R. App. P. 26(a)(3). Pursuant to the

“certificate of mailing,” Petitioner’s notice of appeal is deemed filed on February 25,

2008, which was forty-nine days past the thirty-day filing deadline. See Fed. R.

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App. P. 4(c); Prince v. Philpot, 420 F.3d 1158, 1165-67 (10th Cir. 2005). Pro se

appellants must comply with the requirements of the Federal Rules of Appellate

Procedure that govern all litigants. See Ogden v. San Juan County, 32 F.3d 452, 455

(10th Cir. 1994). 

The time limit for filing a notice of appeal in a civil case is “mandatory and

jurisdictional.” Bowles v. Russell, 127 S.Ct. 2360, 2363 (2007). Petitioner’s notice

of appeal is untimely. The court lacks jurisdiction.

The appeal is DISMISSED for lack of appellate jurisdiction.

Entered for the Court,

Elisabeth A. Shumaker, Clerk

Kathleen T. Clifford

Attorney - Deputy Clerk

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