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900 F.2d 255Unpublished 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NOTICE: Fourth Circuit I.O.P. 36.6 states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Fourth Circuit.Willie Lee SLIGH, Petitioner-Appellant,v.Parker EVATT, Commissioner, Respondent-Appellee.
No. 90-6762.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted March 5, 1990.Decided March 14, 1990.Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied April 27, 1990.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Columbia.  Joe F. Anderson, Jr., District Judge.  (C/A No. 89-177).
Willie Lee Sligh, appellant pro se.
Donald John Zelenka, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Columbia, S.C., for appellee.
D.S.C.
DISMISSED.
Before ERVIN, Chief Judge, and PHILLIPS and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:

1
Willie Lee Sligh submitted his notice of appeal to prison authorities outside the 30-day appeal period established by Fed.R.App.P. 4(a)(1).*   It was therefore untimely.   See Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266 (1988).  In addition, he failed to move for an extension of the appeal period within the additional 30-day period provided by Fed.R.App.P. 4(a)(5).

2
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)).  Appellant'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 deny a certificate of probable cause to appeal and dismiss the appeal.  We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the Court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

DISMISSED

*
 For the purposes of this appeal, we assume that the date appellant placed on the notice of appeal is the earliest date he would have submitted it to prison authorities