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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Aldegundo GARCIA-HERRERA, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 06-51609.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    Aug. 14, 2008.
    Diane D. Kirstein, Joseph H. Gay, Jr., Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Texas, San Antonio, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    Henry Joseph Bemporad, Federal Public Defender, Donna F. Coltharp, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Western District of Texas, San Antonio, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.
    Before JOLLY, CLEMENT, and OWEN, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

The opinion issued in this case on July 14, 2008, is withdrawn and this revised opinion is substituted therefor.

Aldegundo Garcia-Herrera (Garcia) appeals the sentence he received for violating 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) by illegally reentering the United States after previously being removed. Garcia initially argued that his three-year term of supervised release exceeds the maximum one-year term authorized by the illegal reentry statute because he is not subject to the enhanced penalty authorized by 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(2). However, the parties have now informed the Court that while Garcia’s appeal was pending and within the first year of his term of supervised release, the district court revoked Garcia’s term of supervised release and sentenced him to eight months of imprisonment. The district court was authorized to “require the defendant to serve in prison all or part of the term of supervised release authorized by statute for the offense that resulted in such term of supervised release without credit for time previously served on postrelease supervision.” 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(3). Because Garcia’s supervised release was revoked within the first year of his term of supervised release, and because Garcia received a revocation sentence of less than one year, he is not suffering any direct or collateral consequences from the erroneously imposed three-year term of supervised release. See Spencer v. Kemna, 523 U.S. 1, 7, 118 S.Ct. 978, 140 L.Ed.2d 43 (1998) (noting that the case-or-controversy requirement demands that “some concrete and continuing injury other than the now-ended incarceration or parole — some ‘collateral consequence’ of the conviction— must exist if the suit is to be maintained”). Thus, as all parties to this appeal now agree, the issue presented by Garcia’s appeal is moot. We therefore dismiss Garcia’s appeal for lack of jurisdiction.

APPEAL DISMISSED AS MOOT. 
      
       Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.