UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 11-6462
MICHAEL JOSEPH WAGNER,
Petitioner - Appellant,
v.
J. MICHAEL STOUFFER, Commissioner; J. TROVILLIAN, Warden,
Respondents - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
Maryland, at Greenbelt. Alexander Williams, Jr., District
Judge. (8:10-cv-01944-AW)
Submitted: August 25, 2011 Decided: August 30, 2011
Before MOTZ, DUNCAN, and KEENAN, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Michael Joseph Wagner, Sr., Appellant Pro Se. Michael O’Connor
Doyle, Assistant Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland, for
Appellees.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Michael Joseph Wagner seeks to appeal the district
court’s order denying relief on his 28 U.S.C.A. § 2241 (West
2006 & Supp. 2011) petition. We dismiss the appeal for lack of
jurisdiction because the notice of appeal was not timely filed.
Parties are accorded thirty days after the entry of
the district court’s final judgment or order to note an appeal,
Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A), unless the district court extends
the appeal period under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(5), or reopens the
appeal period under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(6). “[T]he timely
filing of a notice of appeal in a civil case is a jurisdictional
requirement.” Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S. 205, 214 (2007).
The district court’s final order was entered on
January 12, 2011, and the notice of appeal was deposited in the
prison’s internal mail system on March 28, 2011. See Fed. R.
App. P. 4(c); Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 276 (1988).
Because Wagner failed to file a timely notice of appeal, to
obtain an extension, or to file a timely motion to reopen the
appeal period, we dismiss the appeal. We dispense with oral
argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately
presented in the materials before the court and argument would
not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED
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