OPINION OF THE COURT
PER CURIAM:
Some two years after appellant was sentenced for bank robbery, he filed a petition under F.R.Cr.P. 35 requesting reduction of sentence. Reasoning that the request was not timely because it was considerably beyond the 120-day period provided in the rule, the district court denied the application; whereupon an appeal was lodged here.
The 120-day time limitation stated in Rule 35 "is jurisdictional and cannot, under...
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