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Date Created: 2023-04-25 17:01:19.533596+00
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                                           UNPUBLISHED

                               UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                   FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                              No. 22-7096

        LAWRENCE L. CRAWFORD, a/k/a Jonah The Tishbite, a/k/a Gabriel Jahjah T.
        Tishbite, a/k/a, John Gabriel Jahjah Tishbite,

                            Movant - Appellant,

                     and

        RON SANTA MCCRAY,

                            Petitioner,

                     v.

        WARDEN OF LIEBER CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION,

                            Defendant - Appellee.

        Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Aiken.
        Terry L. Wooten, Senior District Judge; Shiva Vafai Hodges, Magistrate Judge. (1:22-cv-
        01204-TLW-SVH)

        Submitted: April 20, 2023                                        Decided: April 24, 2023

        Before KING and QUATTLEBAUM, Circuit Judges, and FLOYD, Senior Circuit Judge.

        Remanded by unpublished per curiam opinion.
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        Lawrence Crawford, Appellant Pro Se.

        Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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        PER CURIAM:

               Lawrence L. Crawford seeks to appeal the magistrate judge’s order denying his

        motion to intervene in the underlying habeas action and he has filed a motion to supplement

        the appeal. The magistrate judge entered the dismissal order on May 6, 2022. Affording

        Crawford the benefit of Fed. R. App. P. 4(c) and Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266 (1988),

        the earliest date his notice of appeal may be deemed filed is September 14, 2022, beyond

        both the 30-day appeal period under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A), and the 30-day excusable

        neglect period allowed under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(5). See Shah v. Hutto, 722 F.2d 1167,

        1168-69 (4th Cir. 1983).

               However, because Crawford’s notice of appeal suggests that Crawford did not

        timely receive notice of the denial of his motion to intervene, we construe the notice of

        appeal as a motion to reopen the appeal period under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(6), compare

        United States v. Feuver, 236 F.3d 725, 729 & n.7 (D.C. Cir. 2001), and remand this case

        to the district court for the limited purpose of determining whether Crawford can satisfy

        the requirements for reopening set forth in Rule 4(a)(6). ∗ The record, as supplemented,

        will then be returned to this court for further consideration. We defer action on Crawford’s

        motion to supplement.

                                                                                      REMANDED

               ∗
                We express no opinion as to whether Crawford is entitled to a reopening of the
        appeal period and leave that determination to the district court in the first instance.

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