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· 7/12/2011

United States v. Gaytan-Garza

Citations

  • 652 F.3d 680
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 14257
  • 2011 WL 2690419

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that the time limit for filing a criminal appeal is not jurisdictional
  • finding sua sponte dismissal “appropriate here, as Gaytan-Garza’s delay of over four years in filing his appeal implicates the important judicial interests of finality of convictions and efficient administration of claim processing”
  • sua sponte dismissing untimely appeal because, while defect was non-jurisdictional, dismissal was “appropriate” where notice of appeal was “over four years late”
  • dismissing four-year old appeal sua sponte

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Merritt, Rogers, Forester

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