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Parties Involved:
Luis Navarro-Leon
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

TENTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff - Appellee,

v.

LUIS NAVARRO-LEON,

Defendant - Appellant.

No. 06-2316

D. New Mexico

(D.C. No. CR-04-2496-RB)

ORDER

Filed November 5, 2007

Before MURPHY, EBEL, and O'BRIEN, Circuit Judges. 

Luis Navarro-Leon, a citizen of Mexico, pleaded guilty to a single count of

illegal reentry by a deported alien whose deportation was subsequent to an

aggravated felony conviction. 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a), (b)(2). The district court

sentenced Navarro-Leon to a term of imprisonment of thirty-three months,

followed by two years’ supervised release. Navarro-Leon then brought the instant

appeal, challenging only the propriety of his sentence.

While this appeal was pending, Navarro-Leon completed his term of

imprisonment. Accordingly, this court, acting on its own motion, ordered the

parties to brief whether Navarro-Leon’s release from prison and assumed

deportation rendered this appeal moot. See United States v. Vera-Flores, 496

F.3d 1177, 1181 (10th Cir. 2007) (holding that the expiration of a sentence and

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subsequent deportation of an appellant whose appeal is solely limited to the

propriety of his sentence renders the appeal moot). In his response to this court’s

show cause order, Navarro-Leon’s counsel recognized the precedential effect of

Vera-Flores, but asserted the appeal should not be dismissed because there were

no documents in the record conclusively demonstrating whether Navarro-Leon

had, in fact, been deported. This court, therefore, ordered the parties to either file

a stipulation as to Navarro-Leon’s immigration status or, absent agreement, to file

the documents necessary for this court to resolve the issue. The parties have now

filed a stipulation that Navarro-Leon was deported to Mexico on January 26,

2007.

Because, in response to this court’s show cause order, Navarro-Leon has

not come forward with any showing of collateral consequences arising from the

district court’s challenged sentencing decision, Vera-Flores compels the

conclusion that this appeal is moot. Id. Navarro-Leon has completed his sentence

and been deported to Mexico. Therefore, Navarro-Leon has no “actual injury

likely to be redressed by a favorable judicial decision. Id.

This appeal is, therefore, DISMISSED. The case was previously set for

oral argument on November 13, 2007. The case is hereby stricken from the oral

argument calendar and counsel are excused from appearing.

Entered for the Court

Elisabeth A. Shumaker, Clerk

By:

Deputy Clerk

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