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Parties Involved:
United States of America
Appellee
Spencer Tyrone Webb
Appellant

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 14-7321

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff - Appellee,

v.

SPENCER TYRONE WEBB, a/k/a Stanley Cooper, a/k/a Corey 

Cooper,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern 

District of Virginia, at Newport News. Rebecca Beach Smith, 

Chief District Judge. (4:10-cr-00014-RBS-DEM-1)

Submitted: December 16, 2014 Decided: December 19, 2014

Before DUNCAN and DIAZ, Circuit Judges, and DAVIS, Senior 

Circuit Judge.

Remanded by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Spencer Tyrone Webb, Appellant Pro Se. Eric Matthew Hurt, 

Assistant United States Attorney, Newport News, Virginia, for 

Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Spencer Tyrone Webb seeks to appeal the district 

court’s order denying relief on his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (2012) 

motion. Parties in a civil action in which the United States or 

an officer or agency of the federal government is a party are 

accorded sixty days after the entry of the district court’s 

final judgment or order to note an appeal. Fed. R. App. P. 

4(a)(1)(B). “[T]he timely filing of a notice of appeal in a 

civil case is a jurisdictional requirement.” Bowles v. Russell, 

551 U.S. 205, 214 (2007).

Because Webb is incarcerated, the notice of appeal is 

considered filed on 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, 276 (1988). The record does not 

conclusively reveal when Webb delivered 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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