United States First Circuit

This appeal has been overtaken by changes in the factual and legal circumstances of defendant's confinement, thus, it is dismissed under the mootness doctrine barring courts from deciding a case when no practical consequences would flow from the decision.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/27/2004
• Published 05/27/2004

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, LYNCH and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Owen S. Walker, with whom Elizabeth L. Prevett and the Federal Defender Office were on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gary S. Katzmann, Assistant U.S. Attorney, with whom Michael J. Sullivan, U.S. Attorney, Gerard T. Leone, Jr., First Assistant U.S. Attorney, and Timothy Q. Feeley and Colin Owyang, Assistant U.S. Attorneys, were on brief, for appellee.