Court Opinion

ID: 4647507
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Date Created: 2020-12-29 20:00:25.147323+00
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UNPUBLISHED

                       UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                       No. 20-7409

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                     Petitioner - Appellee,

              v.

DUANE LETROY BERRY,

                     Respondent - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at
Raleigh. W. Earl Britt, Senior District Judge. (5:20-hc-02085-BR)

Submitted: December 22, 2020                                Decided: December 29, 2020

Before NIEMEYER, FLOYD, and RICHARDSON, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Duane Letroy Berry, Appellant Pro Se. Genna Danelle Petre, Special Assistant United
States Attorney, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Raleigh, North
Carolina, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

       Duane Letroy Berry—a former federal criminal defendant against whom a civil

commitment proceeding is pending—seeks to appeal the district court’s order granting his

request to hold evaluations and deadlines in abeyance and directing the clerk to terminate

a hearing. This court may exercise jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1291,

and certain interlocutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1292; Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b);

Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541, 545-47 (1949). The order Berry

seeks to appeal is neither a final order nor an appealable interlocutory or collateral order.

Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. We deny Berry’s motions to

amend or correct the record or certified list, to recall and stay the order, and to substitute

party. We 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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