Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan at Detroit.
No. 2:18-cv-12668—George Caram Steeh III, District Judge.
Argued: December 6, 2023
Decided and Filed: December 15, 2023
Before: SUTTON, Chief Judge; WHITE and BUSH, Circuit Judges.
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OPINION
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SUTTON, Chief Judge. Da’Rell Winters sought to appeal the district court’s decision
denying his application for habeas relief. But he did not receive the district court’s notice in time
to appeal. When he eventually did file a notice of appeal on his own behalf, he explained the
reason for his delay without formally seeking to reopen the time to appeal. This explanation,
we hold, sufficed to allow the district court to construe his notice as a motion to reopen. We
therefore deem his appeal timely. |