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Date Created: 2023-07-29 21:01:00.980433+00
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                                            UNPUBLISHED

                               UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                   FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                              No. 23-6365

        GREGORY W. DODL,

                            Petitioner - Appellant,

                     v.

        R. YOUNCE, Warden,

                            Respondent - Appellee.

        Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, at
        Roanoke. James P. Jones, Senior District Judge. (7:23-cv-00032-JPJ-PMS)

        Submitted: July 25, 2023                                            Decided: July 28, 2023

        Before WYNN and HEYTENS, Circuit Judges, and FLOYD, Senior Circuit Judge.

        Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

        Gregory W. Dodl, Appellant Pro Se.

        Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

                 Gregory W. Dodl, a Virginia prisoner, seeks to appeal the district court’s order

        construing his petition for compassionate release pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582 as arising

        under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 and denying relief because § 3582 is inapplicable to state prisoners.

        We dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction because the notice of appeal was not timely

        filed.

                 In civil cases, parties have 30 days after the entry of the district court’s final

        judgment or order to note an appeal, Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A), unless the district court

        extends the appeal period under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(5) or reopens the appeal period under

        Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(6). “[T]he timely filing of a notice of appeal in a civil case is a

        jurisdictional requirement.” Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S. 205, 214 (2007).

                 The district court entered its order on February 23, 2023. Dodl filed the notice of

        appeal on April 4, 2023. * Because Dodl failed to file a timely notice of appeal or to obtain

        an extension or reopening of the appeal period, we dismiss the appeal. 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

                For the purpose of this appeal, we consider the date Dodl’s correctional institution
                 *

        received his notice of appeal as the earliest date Dodl could have delivered the notice to
        prison officials for mailing to the court. Fed. R. App. P. 4(c)(1); Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S.
        266, 276 (1988).

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