United States v. Gonzalez-Rodriguez

Defendant pled guilty to failing to register in Puerto Rico as a sex offender. The district court sentenced Defendant and stated that any appeal had to be filed within fourteen days of entry of judgment. Defendant took no timely appeal from the entry of final judgment. Ten days after judgment was entered, however, Defendant filed a self-styled “Motion for Reconsideration of Sentence.” The district court denied the motion after the fourteenth day after judgment was entered. Defendant filed a notice of appeal purporting to appeal from both the judgment and the denial of his motion for reconsideration. The First Circuit dismissed the appeal as untimely, holding that Defendant’s failure to file a notice of appeal from his original sentence within fourteen days of the judgment of conviction doomed his appeal. View "United States v. Gonzalez-Rodriguez" on Justia Law