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Criminal Law: Habeas Relief-Early Release Date-Mootness
Staff Report//March 11, 2020//
Where a defendant in a petition for a writ of habeas corpus claimed that the Bureau of Prisons should not have changed his early release date, the case became moot when the defendant was released from prison, so the appeal is dismissed.
Appeal is dismissed.
Blakeney v. Huetter (MLW No. 74618/Case No. 19-1474 – 2 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam) Appealed from U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri.
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