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Parties Involved:
Leonte Mack
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 13-7122

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff - Appellee,

v.

LEONTE DEMETRIUS MACK,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of 

Maryland, at Greenbelt. Peter J. Messitte, Senior District 

Judge. (8:09-cr-00247-PJM-1)

Submitted: March 27, 2014 Decided: March 31, 2014

Before MOTZ, Circuit Judge, and HAMILTON and DAVIS, Senior 

Circuit Judges.

Remanded by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Leonte Mack, Appellant Pro Se. Adam Kenneth Ake, William 

Moomau, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Greenbelt, 

Maryland, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Leonte Demetrius Mack seeks to appeal the district 

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

motion. The district court entered its order on May 8, 2013, 

and it docketed Mack’s notice of appeal on July 15, 2013, one 

week beyond the expiration of the sixty-day appeal period. See

Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(B); Fed. R. App. P. 26(a)(1)(C). Mack

indicates, however, that he delivered his notice of appeal to 

prison officials on June 5, 2013, well within the appeal period. 

Because Mack 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 present record does not conclusively 

reveal when Mack 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. The record, as supplemented, will then be returned 

to this court for further consideration.

REMANDED 

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