What deadline follows an actual criminal notice-of-appeal extension?

Verify the actual original Rule 4(b) period and expiry.

Read the district court’s actual relief and stated duration.

Distinguish an extension request from granted relief.

Complete notice filing within the actual permitted period.

1. Establish original expiry.
2. Read the actual finding and grant.
3. Identify the granted duration.
4. Complete filing within the actual permitted period.

Establish original expiry and the actual grant before assigning a deadline. The thirty-day maximum under Rule 4(b)(4) does not determine the granted duration. A fictitious original July 6 expiry with an actual ten-day extension reaches July 16. The isolated thirty-day reference reaches August 5 and cannot establish that actual July 16 expiry.

Exclude the independently verified triggering day, count every calendar day and roll a final Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday to the next open day under Rule 26(a)(1). Rule 26(a)(6) includes the listed federal holidays, President or Congress declared holidays and, for forward periods, applicable state-declared holidays at the identified district court or circuit clerk’s principal office. The national preset does not infer extra state holidays, inaccessibility or a grant.

File the notice with the district clerk under Rule 3(a)(1), not initially with the circuit clerk. Unless another applicable time controls, electronic district-court filing ends at midnight in the district court’s time zone under Rule 26(a)(4)(A). Other filing ordinarily requires receipt by scheduled clerk closing. Rule 4(c)(1) supplies a separate confined-inmate deposit method with its proof and prepaid-postage conditions. Confirm actual court channels and inaccessibility.

The calculator does not infer excusable neglect, good cause or any actual grant.

The isolated thirty-day preset represents the maximum, not the duration of every actual grant. No computed extension expiry or paid record is published.

Required finding

Rule 4(b)(4) requires a finding of excusable neglect or good cause. A request does not establish the finding or grant.

Thirty-day maximum

The maximum runs from expiry of the original Rule 4(b) time. It does not start thirty days from the later order date or guarantee the full maximum.

With or without motion

The district court may act before or after time expires, with or without motion and notice. This criminal provision is different from the civil extension motion requirements.

Criminal docket entry

Rule 4(b)(6) defines entry as entry in the criminal docket. An announcement, signature, receipt or civil separate-document date is not automatically that event.

Premature notice

Rule 4(b)(2) treats a notice filed after announcement of a decision, sentence or order but before entry as filed on and after the entry date. Establish those actual events.

Rule 35 correction

Under Rule 4(b)(5), a Rule 35(a) sentence-correction motion does not suspend appeal time. The listed Rule 4(b)(3) motions are different.

Actual extension

Rule 4(b)(4) permits relief on excusable neglect or good cause, before or after expiry, with or without motion and notice. Read the actual grant. Its thirty-day maximum is not an automatic extension.

Confined-inmate filing

Rule 4(c)(1) requires use of a designed legal-mail system when one exists. Timely deposit also requires the specified declaration, notarized statement or evidence and prepaid first-class postage, subject to the court’s stated discretion over later declaration filing.

Mistaken circuit filing

Rule 4(d) requires the appellate clerk to note receipt and send the notice to the district clerk. That noted receipt is treated as district filing. Do not assume mailing alone establishes it.

• This guide does not determine appealability, classify or establish timely post-verdict motions, read actual court orders or verify legal-mail proof.
• The national preset does not collect and compare all docket events or infer a granted extension.

• Verify the actual original Rule 4(b) period and expiry.
• Read the district court’s actual relief and stated duration.
• Distinguish an extension request from granted relief.
• Complete notice filing within the actual permitted period.
• Prepare the notice’s required contents under Rule 3(c).
• File with the district clerk by the actual deadline and preserve filing proof.
• Furnish required copies and pay required fees under Rule 3(a)(1) and (e), subject to separately established relief.
• Rule 3(d) assigns notice-of-filing service to the district clerk. Do not substitute mailing to a party for district filing.