United States of America v. Luis Escobedo-Salinas

Honorable Thomas L. Ludington, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of*
Michigan, sitting by designation.
Effective December 1, 2009, the Rule 4(b)(1)(A) time period was changed to 14 days.1
However, prior to December 1, 2009, the applicable 10-day period was calculated without counting
intermediate Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, per Fed. R. App. P. 26(a), a method that also
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File Name: 10a0641n.06
No. 08-4253
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
LUIS ESCOBEDO-SALINAS,
Defendant-Appellant.
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ON APPEAL FROM THE
UNITED STATES DISTRICT
C O U R T F O R T H E
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF
OHIO
O P I N I O N
BEFORE: MARTIN and McKEAGUE, Circuit Judges; and LUDINGTON, District
Judge.*
PER CURIAM. Defendant Luis Escobedo-Salinas pleaded guilty to the charge of illegal
re-entry after being deported, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. He was sentenced on August 11, 2008
to a prison term of 60 months. The judgment of sentence was entered on August 12, 2008.
Defendant filed his notice of appeal on September 4, 2008, contending the sentence is unreasonable.
Under Fed. R. App. P. 4(b)(1)(A), as it existed when defendant was sentenced, defendant was
required to file his notice of appeal within 10 days after entry of the judgment, or, in other words,
not later than August 26, 2010. His notice of appeal was not filed within this period. Nor did1

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effectively afforded defendant 14 calendar days within which to file notice of appeal.
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defendant seek and obtain an extension of the 10-day period in the district court based on a showing
of excusable neglect or good cause, as permitted by Rule 4(b)(4). Further, although defendant was
confined at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center in Youngstown, Ohio, at the time the notice of
appeal was filed, he has not made the showing required under Rule 4(c)(1) that he deposited the
notice of appeal in the Correctional Center’s internal mail system on or before August 26, 2010.
It follows that defendant’s notice of appeal was not timely filed. Because the time limit
prescribed by Rule 4(b) is mandatory and jurisdictional, we lack jurisdiction to hear defendant’s
appeal. United States v. Dotz, 455 F.3d 644, 647 (6th Cir. 2006). Lacking jurisdiction, we have no
alternative but to dismiss the appeal. Accordingly, defendant’s appeal is hereby DISMISSED.

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