Case Name: Lavan Maurice WALKER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. State of FLORIDA, Attorney General of the State of Florida, Bill McCollum, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Respondents-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2009-09-10
Citations: 345 F. App'x 458
Docket Number: No. 08-16831
Parties: Lavan Maurice WALKER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. State of FLORIDA, Attorney General of the State of Florida, Bill McCollum, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Respondents-Appellees.
Judges: Before TJOFLAT, EDMONDSON and PRYOR, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 345
Pages: 458–459

Head Matter:
Lavan Maurice WALKER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. State of FLORIDA, Attorney General of the State of Florida, Bill McCollum, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Respondents-Appellees.
No. 08-16831
Non-Argument Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
Sept. 10, 2009.
Lavan Maurice Walker, Coleman, FL, pro se.
Before TJOFLAT, EDMONDSON and PRYOR, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Lavan Maurice Walker, a federal prisoner, appeals pro se the dismissal of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. 28 U.S.C. § 2254. For a district court to exercise subject-matter jurisdiction over a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the petitioner must be "in custody in violation of the Constitution or laws or treaties of the United States." Id. § 2241(c)(3), 2254(a); accord Maleng v. Cook, 490 U.S. 488, 490-91, 109 S.Ct. 1923, 1925, 104 L.Ed.2d 540 (1989). Jurisdiction does not extend to a petitioner who challenges a conviction after his sentence has completely expired. White v. Butterworth, 70 F.3d 573, 574 (11th Cir.1995). The district court lacked jurisdiction to review Walker's petition because his sentences expired in 2002.
We AFFIRM the dismissal of Walker's petition.