UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 04-6803

ROBERT HOLLAND KOON, Petitioner - Appellant, versus

CHARLES M. CONDON, South Carolina Attorney General, Respondent - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Beaufort. C. Weston Houck, Senior District Judge. (CA-01-3101-9-12)

Submitted: November 3, 2004 Decided: December 1, 2004

Before WILKINSON, MICHAEL, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Remanded by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Robert Holland Koon, Appellant Pro Se. Donald John Zelenka, Chief Deputy Attorney General, William Edgar Salter, III, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

See Local Rule 36(c).

PER CURIAM: Robert Holland Koon seeks to appeal the district court’s order denying relief on his petition filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2000). The notice of appeal was received approximately eight days after the expiration of the appeal period. Under Fed. R. App. P. 4(c)(1) and Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266 (1988), the notice is considered filed as of the date Koon properly delivered it to prison officials for mailing to the court. The record does not reveal if or when Koon complied with the requirements of Fed. R. App. P. 4(c)(1). Accordingly, we remand the case for the district court to obtain this information from the parties and to determine whether the filing was timely under Fed. R. App. P. 4(c)(1) and Houston v. Lack. The record, as supplemented, will then be returned to this court for further consideration.

REMANDED

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