Case Name: Robert MATA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. George W. SUMNER, Warden of the California State Prison at San Quentin, Respondent-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1983-12-14
Citations: 721 F.2d 1251
Docket Number: No. 78-2636
Parties: Robert MATA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. George W. SUMNER, Warden of the California State Prison at San Quentin, Respondent-Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 721
Pages: 1251–1252

Head Matter:
Robert MATA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. George W. SUMNER, Warden of the California State Prison at San Quentin, Respondent-Appellee.
No. 78-2636.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Dec. 14, 1983.
Leonard D. Stein, Redwood City, Cal., argued for petitioner-appellant; Dennis P. Riordan, San Francisco, Cal., on brief.
Jamie Jacobs-May, Deputy Atty. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for respondent-appellee.
Before ELY and SNEED, Circuit Judges, and TAKASUGI, District Judge.
The Honorable Robert M. Takasugi, United States District Judge, Central District of California, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
On January 20,1983, our Court issued its latest OPINION in the subject case, 696 F.2d 1244. A petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court was granted, — U.S. —, 104 S.Ct. 386, 78 L.Ed.2d 332, with Justice Stevens dissenting. We have now received the Supreme Court's mandate, and under that mandate, our Court's judgment is vacated, and the cause is remanded to our Court "with directions to dismiss the appeal as moot."
Following the Supreme Court's directive, the appellant's appeal, being moot, is hereby
DISMISSED.
. The reason for mootness, according to our information, is that in August 1983, the appellant entered a plea of guilty to a charge of voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to a 6-year term of imprisonment. Since he had already served that period of time, because of his original conviction of murder, we are advised that he has been freed.