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877 F.2d 61Unpublished 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NOTICE: Fourth Circuit I.O.P. 36.6 states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Fourth Circuit.Lyskoski T. WASHINGTON, Petitioner-Appellant,v.W.M. FAULCONER, Attorney General of Virginia, Respondents-Appellees.
No. 89-6563.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted April 28, 1989.Decided June 12, 1989.

Lyskoski T. Washington, appellant pro se.
Before K.K. HALL, PHILLIPS, and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:

1
Lyskoski T. Washington, a state prisoner, submitted his notice of appeal to prison authorities outside the 30-day period established by Fed.R.App.P. 4(a)(1).*   It was therefore untimely.    See Houston v. Lack, 56 U.S.L.W. 4728 (U.S. June 24, 1988) (No. 87-5428).  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 the case.  We therefore deny a certificate of probable cause to appeal and dismiss the appeal.  We dispense with oral argument because the dispositive issues recently have been decided authoritatively.

3
DISMISSED.

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