United States of America v. Vaughn Maurice Wooden

NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
VAUGHN MAURICE WOODEN,
Defendant-Appellant.
No. 14-50438
D.C. No. 8:10-cr-00035-DOC
MEMORANDUM*
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Central District of California
David O. Carter, District Judge, Presiding
Submitted January 18, 2017**
Before: TROTT, TASHIMA, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.
Vaughn Maurice Wooden appeals from the district court’s judgment and
challenges the sentence imposed upon revocation of supervised release to the
extent it required him to serve six months in a residential reentry center (“RRC”) as
part of his supervised release term. We dismiss.
FILED
JAN 23 2017
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).

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Wooden contends the district court procedurally erred by basing the RRC
condition on the clearly erroneous finding that Wooden had intentionally violated
the previous RRC condition and because the RRC condition allegedly conflicts
with the sentencing options presented to Wooden by the district court. Because
Wooden has satisfied the six-month RRC condition, and any decision in this appeal
would have no effect on the length of his supervised release term, we dismiss the
appeal as moot. See United States v. Strong, 489 F.3d 1055, 1059 (9th Cir. 2007)
(“An appeal is moot when, by virtue of an intervening event, a court of appeals
cannot grant any effectual relief whatever in favor of the appellant.” (internal
quotation marks omitted)).
DISMISSED.
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