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Case: 11-30437     Document: 00511739275         Page: 1     Date Filed: 01/27/2012

           IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                    FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT  United States Court of Appeals
                                                    Fifth Circuit

                                                                            FILED
                                                                         January 27, 2012
                                     No. 11-30437
                                   Summary Calendar                        Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                                Clerk

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                                                  Plaintiff-Appellee

v.

DAVID JEROME FRANK,

                                                  Defendant-Appellant

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                      for the Western District of Louisiana
                           USDC No. 2:03-CR-20067-1

Before GARZA, SOUTHWICK, and HAYNES, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
        Proceeding pro se, David Jerome Frank moves for leave to proceed in
forma pauperis (IFP) to appeal the denial of his “Motion to Correct Prejudicial
Clerical Error under Rule 36 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure[].” He
asserts that the district court erred in denying the motion because the purported
clerical error denied him the opportunity to file a motion for reconsideration of
the district court’s decision denying reduced sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582.

       *
         Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR.
R. 47.5.4.
   Case: 11-30437    Document: 00511739275      Page: 2    Date Filed: 01/27/2012

                                  No. 11-30437

      Contrary to Frank’s assertion, any clerical error was harmless. At the
time of the alleged error on April 1, 2010, it was too late for him to file a motion
for reconsideration of the May 28, 2009, order denying a reduction in sentence.
See United States v. Miramontez, 995 F.2d 56, 58 n.2 (5th Cir. 1993) (noting that
motions for reconsideration “are timely filed if made within the period allotted
for the noticing of an appeal”); FED. R. APP. P. 4(b) (2008) (providing a 10-day
period for filing a notice of appeal in a criminal proceeding).          Moreover,
regardless of any clerical error, Frank was not entitled to relitigate his ultimate
claim for resentencing because this court already had determined that he was
not entitled to a reduced sentence.
      Because the appeal does not involve legal points arguable on their merits,
leave to proceed IFP is DENIED, and the appeal is DISMISSED AS
FRIVOLOUS. See Howard v. King, 707 F.2d 215, 220 (5th Cir. 1983) (internal
quotation marks omitted); 5TH CIR. R. 42.2.

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