United States v. Barrow

UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 00-4666 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, versus HAROLD GENE BARROW, III, Defendant - Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western Dis- trict of North Carolina, at Asheville. Lacy H. Thornburg, District Judge. (CR-00-26) Submitted: January 10, 2001 Decided: January 23, 2001 Before WILLIAMS, MICHAEL, and KING, Circuit Judges. Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Andrew B. Banzhoff, Asheville, North Carolina, for Appellant. Mark T. Calloway, United States Attorney, Brian Lee Whisler, Assistant United States Attorney, Charlotte, North Carolina, for Appellee. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. See Local Rule 36(c). PER CURIAM: Harold Gene Barrow, III, appeals from the district court’s order denying his motion to dismiss the indictment. We dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction because the order is not appeal- able. Although Barrow has entered a conditional guilty plea and his plea has been accepted by the district court, he has not yet been sentenced. This Court may exercise jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C.A. § 1291 (West 1993), and certain inter- locutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C.A. § 1292 (West 1993 & Supp. 2000 ); Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b); Cohen v. Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541 (1949). The order denying Barrow’s motion to dismiss the indictment on the ground that the statute Barrow was charged with violating was unconstitutional is neither a final order nor an appealable interlocutory or collateral order. Accord- ingly, we dismiss the appeal as interlocutory. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequate- ly presented in the materials before the Court and argument would not aid the decisional process. DISMISSED 2