161720P.pdf   06/15/2017  United States  v.  Frank Whitbeck
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  16-1720
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Gruender and Kelly, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Restitution. The time limit on criminal appeals is a 
   claims-processing rule and defendant's untimely appeal did not present a 
   jurisdictional bar to the panel's consideration of the appeal; the 
   Mandatory Victims Restitution Act does not provide a district court with 
   authority to reduce the amount of a restitution obligation to match the 
   value of a negotiated settlement with the victim in a civil proceeding; as 
   a result, the district court did not have authority to grant defendant's 
   request to deem the restitution obligation discharged if he paid the 
   negotiated settlement; the district court's order denying discharge did 
   not foreclose defendant from seeking relief under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 
   3664(j)(2).