United States v. Wayne Lewis

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• Decided: May 27, 2026
• Docket: 25-7016
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

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UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 25-7016

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff - Appellee,

v.

WAYNE L. LEWIS,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Richmond. Roderick Charles Young, District Judge. (3:24-cr-00061-RCY-1)

Submitted: May 21, 2026 Decided: May 27, 2026

Before AGEE and THACKER, Circuit Judges, and TRAXLER, Senior Circuit Judge.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Wayne L. Lewis, Appellant Pro Se.

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PER CURIAM:

Wayne L. Lewis seeks to appeal the district court’s order in his criminal case

rescheduling the date of his sentencing hearing.

We may exercise jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and certain

interlocutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1292; Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b); Cohen v.

Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541, 545-47 (1949). “Under the final judgment

rule, federal appellate court jurisdiction is limited to reviewing final decisions of the district

court.” United States v. Sueiro, 946 F.3d 637, 639 (4th Cir. 2020) (internal quotation marks

omitted). “In the criminal context, this means that this [c]ourt generally does not have

appellate jurisdiction until after the imposition of a sentence.” Id. “This final judgment

rule requires that a party must ordinarily raise all claims of error in a single appeal

following final judgment on the merits.” Flanagan v. United States, 465 U.S. 259, 263

(1984) (internal quotation marks omitted). “[T]he final judgment rule is ‘at its strongest in

the field of criminal law,’ because of the compelling interest in the speedy resolution of

criminal cases.” Sueiro, 946 F.3d at 640 (quoting Flanagan, 465 U.S. at 264-65).

The order that Lewis seeks to appeal is neither a final order nor an appealable

interlocutory or collateral order. See Sueiro, 946 F.3d at 640-42. Accordingly, we dismiss

the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and

legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before this court and argument

would not aid the decisional process.

DISMISSED