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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (State)

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Order Granting Motion to Dismiss

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NOT FOR CITATION

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ROBERT W. MCGRUDER,

Petitioner,

 vs.

GOV. ARNOLD

SCHWARZENNEGGER,

Respondent. 

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No. C 08-05227 JF (PR)

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

DISMISS PETITION AS MOOT

(Docket No. 6)

Petitioner, a state prisoner currently incarcerated at the Correctional Training

Facility in Soledad, California, seeks petition in pro se for a writ of habeas corpus

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, challenging the Governor of California’s reversal of the

Board of Parole Hearing’s grant of parole on February 8, 2007. Respondent filed a

motion to dismiss the petition as moot on the grounds that petitioner was released on

parole on March 2, 2009. (Docket No. 6.) Petitioner has not updated his address, and has

not filed opposition to Respondent’s motion to dismiss. 

Because Petitioner has been released on parole, the petition for a writ of habeas

corpus is moot. See Fendler v. United States Bureau of Prisons, 846 F.2d 550, 555 (9th

Cir. 1988) (habeas challenge to denial of parole will become moot if petitioner is released

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on parole before court considers petition); see also Burnett v. Lampert, 432 F.3d 996,

999-1001 (9th Cir. 2005) (finding habeas petition still moot after petitioner violated

parole and was reincarcerated).

Accordingly, Respondent’s motion to dismiss is GRANTED. The petition for writ

of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 is DISMISSED as moot. 

This order terminates Docket No. 6.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: ____________________ JEREMY FOGEL 

United States District Judge

2/22/10

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ROBERT MCGRUDER,

Petitioner,

 v.

GOV. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER,

Respondent. /

Case Number: CV08-05227 JF 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am an employee in the Office of the Clerk, U.S. District

Court, Northern District of California.

That on , I SERVED a true and correct copy(ies) of the

attached, by placing said copy(ies) in a postage paid envelope addressed to the person(s)

hereinafter listed, by depositing said envelope in the U.S. Mail, or by placing said copy(ies) into

an inter-office delivery receptacle located in the Clerk's office.

Robert W. McGruder D-32218

CTF-East Dorm (ED-93L)

P.O. Box 689

Soledad, CA 93960

Dated: 

Richard W. Wieking, Clerk

3/9/10

3/9/10

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