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093606P.pdf   10/18/2010  United States  v.  Mario Watson
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-3606
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Loken and Hansen, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - criminal law. Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(b)
   is a non-jurisdictional claim-processing rule; here the government
   properly objected by motion and in its merits brief that the notice of
   appeal was untimely as to defendant's judgment of conviction, and that
   portion of the appeal is dismissed; the appeal was timely as to the district
   court's denial of defendant's motion to reduce sentence, but that portion
   of the appeal is meritless, and the district court's order denying the
   motion is affirmed.