Case Name: Keith D. WILSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Don WOOD, Superintendent; Theodis Beck, Secretary of Corrections, Respondents-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2009-12-03
Citations: 357 F. App'x 506
Docket Number: No. 08-6752
Parties: Keith D. WILSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Don WOOD, Superintendent; Theodis Beck, Secretary of Corrections, Respondents-Appellees.
Judges: Before MICHAEL, MOTZ, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 357
Pages: 506–507

Head Matter:
Keith D. WILSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Don WOOD, Superintendent; Theodis Beck, Secretary of Corrections, Respondents-Appellees.
No. 08-6752.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted: Nov. 18, 2009.
Decided: Dec. 3, 2009.
Keith D. Wilson, Appellant pro se. Clarence Joe DelForge, III, Assistant Attorney General, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellees.
Before MICHAEL, MOTZ, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
Dismissed by unpublished PER CURIAM opinion.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Keith D. Wilson seeks to appeal the district court's order denying his second Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b) motion for reconsideration of the district court's order denying relief on his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2006) petition. We dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction because the notice of appeal was not timely filed.
In a civil case in which the United States is not a party, a notice of appeal must be filed with the district court clerk within thirty days after the order appealed from is entered, see Fed. R.App. P. 4(a)(1)(A), unless the district court extends the appeal period under Fed. RApp. P. 4(a)(5), or reopens the appeal period under Fed. R.App. P. 4(a)(6). This appeal period is "mandatory and jurisdictional." Browder v. Dir., Dep't of Corr., 434 U.S. 257, 264, 98 S.Ct. 556, 54 L.Ed.2d 521 (1978) (quoting United States v. Robinson, 361 U.S. 220, 229, 80 S.Ct. 282, 4 L.Ed.2d 259 (1960)).
The district court's order was entered on March 28, 2008. Because the record did not reveal when Wilson delivered his notice of appeal to prison officials for mailing, we remanded this case to the district court. See Fed. R.App. P. 4(c)(1); Hous ton v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 108 S.Ct. 2379, 101 L.Ed.2d 245 (1988). After receiving responses from the parties and holding an evidentiary hearing, the district court found that Wilson filed his notice of appeal, at the earliest, on May 2, 2008, after the appeal period expired. We conclude that the district court's factual finding is not clearly erroneous. Because Wilson filed his notice of appeal beyond the thirty-day appeal period and failed to obtain an extension or reopening of such period, we deny leave to proceed in forma pauperis and dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED.