Reginald Bookman v. Secretary, Department of Corrections
Reginald Bookman v. Secretary, Department of Corrections
Opinion
USCA11 Case: 24-13400 Document: 19-1 Date Filed: 01/22/2025 Page: 1 of 2
[DO NOT PUBLISH] In the United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit ____________________ No. 24-13400 Non-Argument Calendar ____________________ REGINALD BOOKMAN, Petitioner-Appellant, versus SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, ATTORNEY GENERAL, STATE OF FLORIDA,
Respondents-Appellees.
____________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida D.C. Docket No. 6:16-cv-00906-CEM-EJK USCA11 Case: 24-13400 Document: 19-1 Date Filed: 01/22/2025 Page: 2 of 2
2 Opinion of the Court 24-13400 ____________________ Before JORDAN, GRANT, and LUCK, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM: This appeal is DISMISSED, sua sponte, for lack of jurisdic- tion. Reginald Bookman, a Florida prisoner proceeding pro se, ap- peals from the district courts’ May 5, 2016, order transferring his case from the Northern District of Florida to the Middle District of Florida; October 20, 2016, order terminating the respondents’ mo- tion to dismiss; and February 24, 2017, order denying Bookman’s habeas corpus petition and dismissing the case. He was required to file a notice of appeal from the last of those orders, the corre- sponding separate judgment for which was entered on February 27, 2017, by March 29, 2017. See 28 U.S.C. § 2107(a); Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A), 4(a)(7)(A)(ii); Fed. R. Civ. P. 58(a). However, Book- man’s notice of appeal was not deemed filed until October 1, 2024.
See Fed. R. App. P. 4(c)(1); Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 276 (1988) (explaining that, under the prison mailbox rule, a notice of appeal mailed by a pro se prisoner through the prison mail system is deemed filed on the date that he delivers it to prison authorities for mailing). Accordingly, the notice is untimely and cannot invoke our appellate jurisdiction. See Green v. Drug Enf’t Admin., 606 F.3d 1296, 1300 (11th Cir. 2010).
No petition for rehearing may be filed unless it complies with the timing and other requirements of 11th Cir. R. 40-3 and all other applicable rules.
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