United States v. Gray

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Decided: June 10, 2025
• Docket: 24-3322
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS JUN 10 2025 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 24-3322 D.C. No. Plaintiff - Appellee, 2:09-cr-00170-JCC-1 v. MEMORANDUM* ANDREW STEVEN GRAY, AKA Stryder D Austin,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington John C. Coughenour, District Judge, Presiding

Submitted June 6, 2025 ** Seattle, Washington

Before: HAWKINS, GOULD, and BUMATAY, Circuit Judges.

Andrew Steven Gray appeals the district court’s order granting his petition for

a writ of error coram nobis. We dismiss the appeal.

* 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). In 2010, Gray was convicted pursuant to a guilty plea on one count of being

a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), and one count

of possession with intent to distribute marijuana, in violation of 21 U.S.C.

§§ 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(B). After Gray completed his custodial sentence and term of

supervised release, the conviction that served as the predicate felony for Gray’s

felon-in-possession conviction was vacated. Gray then filed the underlying petition

for a writ of error coram nobis and sought to vacate his felon-in-possession

conviction. His petition relied on the vacatur of his predicate felony conviction as

well as several cases interpreting the elements of the felon-in-possession statute that

post-dated Gray’s conviction. The district court granted the petition and granted the

precise relief—vacatur of the 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) conviction—that Gray requested.

Gray now contends that the district court should have gone further by

invalidating his entire plea agreement and both counts of his conviction. However,

Gray failed to raise this argument before the district court. See United States v.

Mejia-Mesa, 153 F.3d 925, 931 (9th Cir. 1998) (dismissing claims not initially

presented to the district court); see also Oracle USA, Inc. v. Rimini St., Inc., 81 F.4th

843, 856 (9th Cir. 2023) (“We rarely review an appeal brought by the prevailing

party.”).

DISMISSED.

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