United States v. 2005-03-02 | 99-99022 | GARCEAU VWOODFORD | precedential | opinion |

FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
 ROBERT FREDERICK GARCEAU, No. 99-99022
Petitioner-Appellant, D.C. No.
v. CV F-95-5363 
JEANNE S. WOODFORD, Warden, of OWW
San Quentin State Prison, ORDER
Respondent-Appellee. 
On Remand from the United States Supreme Court
Argued and Submitted
March 24, 2004—San Francisco, California
Filed March 3, 2005
Before: Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, A. Wallace Tashima, and
Sidney R. Thomas, Circuit Judges.
COUNSEL
Lynne S. Coffin, Coffin & Love, San Francisco, California,
for the petitioner-appellant.
Clayton S. Tanaka, Deputy Attorney General, Sacramento,
California, for the respondent-appellee.
ORDER
The Supreme Court reversed our prior judgment and
remanded this case for us to determine the effect of the
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Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 on this
case. See Woodford v. Garceau, 538 U.S. 202, 210 (2003).
After supplemental briefing after remand, oral argument, and
submission of the case for decision, petitioner Robert Freder-
ick Garceau died on December 29, 2004.
Because petitioner’s death renders this case moot, the peti-
tion for a writ of habeas corpus should be dismissed as moot.
See Griffey v. Lindsey, 349 F.3d 1157 (9th Cir. 2003). This
case is therefore remanded to the district court with instruc-
tions to dismiss the petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
REMANDED with instructions.
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