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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
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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.

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

No. 08-20599

Summary Calendar

HUEY P WALTERS,

Petitioner-Appellant

v.

RICK THALER, DIRECTOR, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE,

CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS DIVISION,

Respondent-Appellee

Appeal from the United States District Court

for the Southern District of Texas

USDC No. 4:05-CV-1026

Before GARZA, CLEMENT, and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:*

Huey Walters, Texas prisoner # 501052, was convicted in 1987 of

aggravated sexual assault and was sentenced to 60 years in prison. Walters

appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition, arguing that

prison officials (1) had failed to award all of the good-time credits to which he

was entitled upon his completion of an education program in December 2003 and

(2) had failed to backdate the award of those credits to his sentence-begin date,

United States Court of Appeals

Fifth Circuit

F I L E D

March 15, 2010

Charles R. Fulbruge III

Clerk

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in violation of the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process and Ex Post Facto Clauses

and of the Fourteenth Amendment. We granted a certificate of appealability on

the first issue only. Walters v. Quarterman, No. 08-20599 (5th Cir. June 17,

2009) (unpublished).

During the pendency of this appeal, Walters was released from prison to

mandatory supervision. As a result, Walters’s appeal has been rendered moot.

See Spencer v. Kemna, 523 U.S. 1, 7 (1998); Bailey v. Southerland, 821 F.2d 277,

278-79 (5th Cir. 1987). Accordingly, the APPEAL is DISMISSED as MOOT. 

Walters’s motion to expedite the appeal is DENIED.

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