United States v. Kamali Rives

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• Decided: June 23, 2025
• Docket: 25-11052
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

USCA11 Case: 25-11052 Document: 15-1 Date Filed: 06/23/2025 Page: 1 of 2

[DO NOT PUBLISH] In the United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit

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No. 25-11052 Non-Argument Calendar ____________________

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus KAMALI RIVES, a.k.a. Kut,

Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia D.C. Docket No. 1:14-cr-00130-TWT-JFK-4 USCA11 Case: 25-11052 Document: 15-1 Date Filed: 06/23/2025 Page: 2 of 2

2 Opinion of the Court 25-11052

Before JILL PRYOR, LAGOA, and KIDD, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: Upon our review of the record and the parties’ responses to the jurisdictional question, we conclude that we lack jurisdiction over this appeal. Kamali Rives appeals from the district court’s or- der granting the parties’ joint motion for sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2). In that motion, Rives asked the district court to reduce his total sentence to 223 months’ imprisonment, and he attached to that motion a proposed order to that effect. The district court granted the motion and reduced his total sentence to 223 months, appearing to use the proposed order Rives submitted. Because the district court granted Rives the exact relief re- quested in the motion, he was not aggrieved by the court’s order and thus lacks standing to challenge it on appeal. See Wolff v. Cash 4 Titles, 351 F.3d 1348, 1353 (11th Cir. 2003) (holding that it is a jurisdictional requirement that litigants establish their standing to appeal); United States v. Hernandez, 743 F.3d 812, 815 (11th Cir. 2014) (concluding that criminal defendant was not aggrieved by the grant of his application for funds and thus lacked standing to chal- lenge it on appeal). Accordingly, this appeal is DISMISSED for lack of jurisdic- tion.