Court Opinion

ID: 3047060
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2015-10-13 23:20:32.759301+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:38:08.522672
License: Public Domain

PER CURIAM.
 

  Mario Valdez-Aldaba appeals the district court’s
  
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  dismissal of his post-judgment motion seeking to modify his sentence to grant him credit for time served on a state sentence. The district court dismissed the motion as untimely under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(a). Valdez-Aldaba’s counsel has moved to withdraw.
 

  Because Valdez-Aldaba’s post-judgment motion was filed more than eighteen months after his sentencing, we conclude that the district court correctly denied it as untimely, whether it is characterized as a motion to correct a sentence under Rule 35(a), or as a motion for relief from an illegal sentence under section 2255.
  
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  28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(1) (indicating motion for relief from sentence under § 2255 must be filed within 1 year from date on which judgment of conviction became final); Fed. R.Crim.P. 35(a) (providing for correction of sentence “[w]ithin 7 days after sentencing”).
 

  Accordingly, we affirm and grant counsel’s motion to withdraw.
 

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   . The Honorable Ortrie D. Smith, United States District Judge for the Western District of Missouri.