
    UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Albert Alexander JACKSON, Jr., a/k/a Scarface, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 01-7049.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
    Submitted Oct. 4, 2001.
    Decided Oct. 17, 2001.
    Albert Alexander Jackson, Jr., pro se. Rudolf A. Renfer, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, Raleigh, NC, for appellee.
    Before NIEMEYER, LUTTIG, and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges.
   OPINION

PER CURIAM.

Albert Alexander Jackson, Jr., appeals the district court orders denying his 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 (West Supp.2001) motion and denying reconsideration of that order. We find Jackson did not timely file his § 2255 motion and dismiss on that ground.

Jackson had one year to file a motion from the date his conviction became final, the date a new right was recognized by the Supreme Court as retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review, the date on which any government-imposed impediment to filing was removed, or the date on which new evidence could have been discovered by the exercise of due diligence. 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255. Jackson’s judgment of conviction was entered on the docket on March 30, 1999, and he did not appeal. Consequently, Jackson’s conviction became final on that date. United States v. Sanders, 247 F.3d 139, 142 (4th Cir.2001). Jackson filed his § 2255 motion on December 19, 2000, more than one year after his conviction became final. Jackson claims that the one-year period should run from the date of the Supreme Court’s decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000). However, as we have previously noted, Apprendi is not retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review. Sanders, 247 F.3d at 151. Finally, no government-imposed impediment to filing or newly discovered evidence exists to warrant a finding that Jackson’s petition was timely.

Because we find Jackson did not timely file his § 2255 motion, we deny a certificate of appealability and dismiss the appeal. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

DISMISSED.  