UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 95-6425

NORMAN DOUGLAS JIMMISON, JR.,

Petitioner - Appellant,

versus

D. R. LAWSON,

Respondent - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Richmond. Richard L. Williams, Senior District Judge. (CA-94-548)

Submitted: December 14, 1995 Decided: January 2, 1996

Before ERVIN, Chief Judge, and WIDENER and WILKINS, Circuit Judges.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Norman Douglas Jimmison, Jr., Appellant Pro Se. Mary Kathleen Beatty Martin, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF VIRGINIA, Rich- mond, Virginia, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. See Local Rule 36(c). PER CURIAM:

Appellant noted this appeal outside the thirty-day appeal

period established by Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1), failed to obtain an

extension of the appeal period within the additional thirty-day

period provided by Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(5), and is not entitled to

relief under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(6). The time periods established by Fed. R. App. P. 4 are "mandatory and jurisdictional." Browder v. Director, Dep't of Corrections,

(1978) (quoting

United States v. Robinson,

(1960)). The district

court entered its order on November 29, 1994; Appellant's notice of

appeal was filed on March 3, 1995. Appellant's failure to note a

timely appeal or obtain an extension of the appeal period deprives this court of jurisdiction to consider this case. We therefore deny

a certificate of probable cause to appeal and dismiss the appeal.

We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal conten- tions are adequately presented in the materials before the court

and argument would not aid the decisional process.

DISMISSED

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