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Date Created: 2018-01-23 20:00:28.059205+00
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UNPUBLISHED

                       UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                      No. 17-7403

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                    Plaintiff - Appellee,

             v.

KENNETH ROSHAUN REID,

                    Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Rock
Hill. Cameron McGowan Currie, Senior District Judge. (0:04-cr-00353-CMC-1)

Submitted: January 18, 2018                                       Decided: January 23, 2018

Before GREGORY, Chief Judge, and SHEDD and HARRIS, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Kenneth Roshaun Reid, Appellant Pro Se. Beth Drake, Acting United States Attorney,
Jimmie Ewing, William Kenneth Witherspoon, Assistant United States Attorneys,
OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Columbia, South Carolina, for
Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:

      Kenneth Roshaun Reid seeks to appeal his sentence imposed as part of the

criminal judgment entered following his convictions after a jury trial for conspiracy to

possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base and

500 grams or more of cocaine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 (2012), murder and aiding

and abetting, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 924(j)(1) (2012), and possession of firearms

and ammunition by an unlawful user of controlled substances, in violation of 18 U.S.C.

§ 922(g)(3) (2012). We dismiss the appeal.

       In criminal cases, a defendant must file his notice of appeal within 14 days after

the entry of judgment. 1 Fed. R. App. P. 4(b)(1)(A)(i). With or without a motion, upon a

showing of excusable neglect or good cause, the district court may grant an extension of

up to 30 days to file a notice of appeal. Fed. R. App. P. 4(b)(4); United States v. Reyes,

759 F.2d 351, 353 (4th Cir. 1985). The district court entered the criminal judgment on

August 4, 2006. Reid’s notice of appeal was filed on October 16, 2017. 2

       Reid’s appeal notice is thus untimely, and he has not obtained an extension of the

appeal period.    Further, although the appeal period in a criminal case is not a

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         At the time judgment was entered, the appeal period was 10 days. Fed. R. App.
P. 4(b)(1)(A)(i) (2006). On December 1, 2009, the period was extended to 14 days. Fed.
R. App. P. 4(b)(1)(A)(i) (2009). Reid’s notice of appeal is untimely under either period.
      2
         For the purpose of this appeal, we assume that the postmark date appearing on
the envelope containing the undated notice of appeal is the earliest date it could have
been properly delivered to prison officials for mailing to the district court. Fed. R. App.
P. 4(c); Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 276 (1988).

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jurisdictional provision, but, rather, a claim-processing rule, Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S.
205, 209-13 (2007); United States v. Urutyan, 564 F.3d 679, 685 (4th Cir. 2009), we

conclude that, because Reid already has completed collateral review of the same

judgment he now seeks to appeal, extraordinary circumstances meriting sua sponte

dismissal of the appeal are present. United States v. Oliver, ___ F.3d ___, No. 15-4376,

2017 WL 6505851, at *6-7 (4th Cir. Dec. 20, 2017).

       We therefore dismiss the appeal. We deny Reid’s motion for a certificate of

appealability and dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are

adequately presented in the materials before this court and argument would not aid the

decisional process.

                                                                              DISMISSED

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