Garceau v. Woodford

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Decided: March 2, 2005
• Docket: 99-99022
• Status: Published

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

2459 2460 GARCEAU v. WOODFORD 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. PRINTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE—U.S. COURTS BY THOMSON/WEST—SAN FRANCISCO

The summary, which does not constitute a part of the opinion of the court, is copyrighted © 2005 Thomson/West.