Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-06-21 21:00:43.633486+00
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                                            UNPUBLISHED

                               UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                   FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                              No. 21-4695

        UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                            Plaintiff - Appellee,

                     v.

        STUART ALEXANDER DAMERI,

                            Defendant - Appellant.

        Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at
        Norfolk. Arenda L. Wright Allen, District Judge. (2:20-cr-00085-AWA-RJK-1)

        Submitted: April 27, 2023                                         Decided: June 20, 2023

        Before KING, RICHARDSON, and HEYTENS, Circuit Judges.

        Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

        Stuart Alexander Dameri, Appellant Pro Se. Joseph Attias, Assistant United States
        Attorney, Richmond, Virginia, Matthew John Heck, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES
        ATTORNEY, Norfolk, Virginia, for Appellee.

        Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

               Stuart Alexander Dameri seeks to appeal his conviction and 168-month sentence

        following his guilty plea, pursuant to a written plea agreement, to receipt of child

        pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(2). The Government moves to dismiss

        his appeal as untimely. We dismiss the appeal.

               In criminal cases, the defendant must file the notice of appeal within 14 days after

        the entry of judgment. Fed. R. App. P. 4(b)(1)(A). With or without a motion, upon a

        showing of excusable neglect or good cause, the district court may grant an extension of

        up to 30 days to file a notice of appeal. Fed. R. App. P. 4(b)(4). Although the appeal

        period in a criminal case is not a jurisdictional provision, but rather a claim-processing rule,

        United States v. Urutyan, 564 F.3d 679, 685 (4th Cir. 2009), “[w]hen the Government

        promptly invokes the rule in response to a late-filed criminal appeal, we must dismiss,”

        United States v. Oliver, 878 F.3d 120, 123 (4th Cir. 2017).

               The district court entered the criminal judgment on July 19, 2021. Dameri filed the

        notice of appeal, at the earliest, on December 4, 2021. Because Dameri failed to file a

        timely notice of appeal or to obtain an extension of the appeal period and the Government

        has promptly invoked the appeal’s untimeliness, see 4th Cir. R. 27(f)(2), we grant the

        Government’s motion to dismiss the appeal. We grant Dameri’s motion to file an oversized

        brief. 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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