In re: Andre Wilburn

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 25-1390
In re: ANDRE WILBURN,
Petitioner.
On Petition for Writ of Mandamus to the United States District Court for the Northern
District of West Virginia, at Wheeling. (5:25-cv-00057-JPB-JPM)
Submitted: June 17, 2025 Decided: June 20, 2025
Before GREGORY, QUATTLEBAUM, and BERNER, Circuit Judges.
Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Andre Wilburn, Petitioner Pro Se.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Andre Wilburn petitions for a writ of mandamus seeking an order reversing the
district court’s order denying his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition. We conclude that Wilburn is
not entitled to mandamus relief.
Mandamus relief is a drastic remedy and should be used only in extraordinary
circumstances. Cheney v. U.S. Dist. Ct., 542 U.S. 367, 380 (2004); In re Murphy-Brown,
LLC, 907 F.3d 788, 795 (4th Cir. 2018). Further, mandamus relief is available only when
the petitioner has a clear right to the relief sought and “has no other adequate means to
attain the relief [he] desires.” Murphy-Brown, 907 F.3d at 795 (alteration and internal
quotation marks omitted).
To the extent Wilburn assigns error to the district court’s decision to deny the § 2241
petition, mandamus may not be used as an alternative to appeal. See In re Lockheed Martin
Corp., 503 F.3d 351, 353 (4th Cir. 2007). Moreover, Wilburn “has . . . other adequate
means to attain the relief [he] desires.” In re Murphy-Brown, LLC, 907 F.3d 788, 795 (4th
Cir. 2018) (alteration and internal quotation marks omitted); see, e.g., 28 U.S.C.
§ 2255(f)(1) (providing one year limitation period to file 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, which
commences, in relevant part, on “the date . . . the judgment of conviction becomes final”);
United States v. Oliver, 878 F.3d 120, 125 (4th Cir. 2017) (“A criminal conviction becomes
final at the end of the appellate process—i.e., when the time for a direct appeal expires and
the defendant has not noticed an appeal or, if the defendant pursues an appeal, when the
time for filing a petition for certiorari expires.”).

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We therefore deny the mandamus petition. 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.
PETITION DENIED

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