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Parties Involved:
United States of America
Appellee
Darrell Eugene Washington
Appellant

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

 Plaintiff - Appellee, 

v. 

DARRELL EUGENE WASHINGTON, 

 Defendant - Appellant. 

No. 16-4001 

(D.C. No. 1:02-CR-00034-DB-1) 

(D. Utah) 

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ORDER

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Before MATHESON, McKAY, and O’BRIEN, Circuit Judges. 

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Darrell Eugene Washington appeals the district court’s denial of his motion for 

a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) and Amendment 782 to the 

U.S. Sentencing Guidelines. But while this appeal was pending, the district court 

vacated Mr. Washington’s sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, rendering this appeal 

moot. See United States v. Moore, 83 F.3d 1231, 1235 (10th Cir. 1996) (when a 

sentence is vacated under § 2255, “the original sentence . . . is eviscerated”). We 

therefore grant Mr. Washington’s motion to dismiss. 

 We grant Mr. Washington’s motion to proceed on appeal without prepayment 

of costs or fees. The relevant statute, 28 U.S.C. §1915(a)(1), does not permit litigants to 

avoid payment of filing and docketing fees, only prepayment of those fees. Although we 

FILED 

United States Court of Appeals

Tenth Circuit 

November 3, 2016

Elisabeth A. Shumaker 

Clerk of Court

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have dismissed this appeal, Mr. Washington remains obligated to pay all filing and 

docketing fees. He is directed to pay the fees in full to the clerk of the district court. 

Entered for the Court 

Monroe G. McKay 

Circuit Judge 

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