United States v. Rudolph V. Orange

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• Decided: May 28, 2025
• Docket: 24-12449
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

USCA11 Case: 24-12449 Document: 27-1 Date Filed: 05/28/2025 Page: 1 of 2

[DO NOT PUBLISH] In the United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit

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No. 24-12449 Non-Argument Calendar ____________________

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus RUDOLPH V. ORANGE, a.k.a. Big,

Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia D.C. Docket No. 5:11-cr-00007-LGW-BWC-1 USCA11 Case: 24-12449 Document: 27-1 Date Filed: 05/28/2025 Page: 2 of 2

2 Opinion of the Court 24-12449

Before NEWSOM, LAGOA, and BRASHER, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: In October 2012, Rudolph V. Orange was sentenced to 324 months’ imprisonment and 5 years’ supervised release. In May 2024, he filed a motion for sentence reduction. In July 2024, the district court denied that motion. Orange appealed. After briefing, Orange was granted executive clemency and released from his term of imprisonment, starting his term of supervised release. A jurisdictional question asked the parties to address whether this appeal is now moot. The government responded, ar- guing that it is. Orange did not respond. Upon review of the rec- ord, we conclude that the appeal is moot. Orange did not challenge his conviction or term of super- vised release in his motion for sentence reduction. He similarly did not challenge his conviction or supervised release in his appellate brief. Nor did he identify an ongoing collateral consequence trace- able to his term of imprisonment in response to the jurisdictional question. As a result, this appeal relates only to a term of impris- onment from which Orange has been released, meaning it is moot. See United States v. Juvenile Male, 564 U.S. 932, 937 (2011); United States v. Stevens, 997 F.3d 1307, 1310 n.1 (11th Cir. 2021). Accordingly, this appeal is DISMISSED for lack of jurisdic- tion. All pending motions are DENIED as moot.