UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

TENTH CIRCUIT

PHILIP DON WILLOUGHBY,

Petitioner - Appellant,

vs.

TWYLA SNIDER,

Respondent - Appellee.

No. 99-6446

(	D.C. No. 97-CV-1887-C)

(W.D. Okla.)

ORDER AND JUDGMENT*

Before BRORBY, KELLY, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.**

Mr. Willoughby, an inmate appearing pro se, seeks to appeal from the district court's denial of his motions for relief from judgment and for leave to file a notice of appeal out of time, so that he may appeal the denial of his habeas petition, 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court, adopting the magistrate's recommendation, denied Mr. Willoughby's habeas petition in an order entered February 24, 1999. In October 1999, Mr. Willoughby filed his motions, asserting that his counsel on the habeas matter told him that an appeal was automatic.

The district court did not abuse its discretion in denying relief on the post- judgment requests. Because Mr. Willoughby failed to file his motions for relief within the 180 day time period specified by Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(6), he is time- barred from doing so now. Mr. Willoughby is unable to circumvent this requirement under the auspices of Rule 60(b). See Servants of the Paraclete v. Does, I-XVI, 204 F.3d 1005, 1009-1010 (10th Cir. 2000).

We DENY a certificate of appealability and DISMISS the appeal.

Entered for the Court

Paul J. Kelly, Jr.

Circuit Judge