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850 F.2d 690Unpublished Disposition
NOTICE: Fourth Circuit I.O.P. 36.6 states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Fourth Circuit.UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff--Appellee,v.Morris Edwin ANGLIN, Jr., a/k/a Sonny Anglin, Defendant--Appellant.
No. 88-7512.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted:  May 17, 1988.Decided:  June 23, 1988.

Morris Edwin Anglin, Jr., appellant pro se.
Robert J. Mathias, Office of the U.S. Attorney, for appellee.
Before JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, ERVIN and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:

1
Norman Edwin Anglin, Jr., appeals the district court's denial of his Fed.R.Crim.P. 35 motion to correct his sentence.  We dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction.

2
Rule 35 motions are considered continuations of the criminal proceedings against a defendant;  thus, the ten-day notice of appeal period of Fed.R.App.P. 4(b) applies.   See United States v. Breit, 754 F.2d 526, 528-29 (4th Cir.1985);  United States v. Guiterrez, 556 F.2d 1217, 1217 (5th Cir.1977).  Because Anglin did not file his notice of appeal until 60 days after the district court's order was entered, his appeal was untimely.  The notice of appeal was also filed outside the thirty-day period established by Fed.R.App.P. 4(b) for obtaining an extension of time to appeal based on excusable neglect.  Thus, the district court had no authority to grant an extension of time in which to appeal.   United States v. Avendano-Camacho, 786 F.2d 1392, 1394-95 (9th Cir.1986);  United States v. Cheek, 761 F.2d 461, 462-63 (8th Cir.1985);  United States v. Hoye, 548 F.2d 1271, 1273 (6th Cir.1977).  It is therefore unnecessary to remand this case to the district court to determine whether the untimely filing of the appeal was due to excusable neglect.   Guiterrez, 556 F.2d at 1217-18;  cf. United States v. Reyes, 759 F.2d 351, 353 (4th Cir.)  (in direct criminal appeal, notice of appeal filed within thirty days after appeal period has expired is sufficient to require that appellant be given opportunity to show excusable neglect), cert. denied, 474 U.S. 857 (1985).

3
The time periods established by Fed.R.App.P. 4 are "mandatory and jurisdictional."   Browder v. Director, Dep't of Corrections, 434 U.S. 257, 264 (1978) (quoting United States v. Robinson, 361 U.S. 220, 229 (1960)).  Anglin's failure to note a timely appeal or obtain an extension of the appeal period deprives this Court of jurisdiction to consider this case.  We therefore dismiss the appeal.  We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal arguments are adequately presented in the materials before the Court and oral argument would not significantly aid the decisional process.

4
DISMISSED.