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2009 Decisions                                                                                                             States Court of Appeals
                                                                                                                              for the Third Circuit

3-20-2009

USA v. George Blood
Precedential or Non-Precedential: Non-Precedential

Docket No. 08-4101

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HLD-56      (February 2009)                             NOT PRECEDENTIAL

                       UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                            FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT
                                 ___________

                                       No. 08-4101
                                       ___________

                            UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

                                             v.

                                   GEORGE BLOOD,
                                                        Appellant

                       ____________________________________

                     On Appeal from the United States District Court
                               for the District of Delaware
                             (D.C. Criminal No. 04-00061)
                      District Judge: Honorable Gregory M. Sleet
                      ____________________________________

                  Submitted for Possible Summary Action Pursuant to
                       Third Circuit LAR 27.4 and I.O.P. 10.6
                                  February 27, 2009
           Before: SCIRICA, Chief Judge, WEIS and GARTH, Circuit Judges
                            Opinion filed: March 20, 2009
                                   ______________

                                        OPINION
                                     ______________

PER CURIAM.

              Appellant George Blood (“Blood”) was convicted in the District Court for

the District of Delaware on six counts of wire fraud, three counts of mail fraud, and three

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counts of illegal monetary transactions. He was sentenced to 78 months of imprisonment,

three years of supervised release, a $1,200 special assessment, and restitution of

$270,400. On May 16, 2008, Blood filed a motion to dismiss the superseding indictments

against him pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. Rule 12(b)(3)(B). On June 23, 2008, he filed a

motion to “correct errors in the record” pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. Rule 36. The District

Court denied both motions on September 22, 2008, and Blood appealed from that order.

For the reasons that follow, we will affirm.

              Fed. R. Crim. P. Rule 12(b)(3)(B) states, in pertinent part, that “at any time

while the case is pending, the court may hear a claim that the indictment or information

fails to invoke the court’s jurisdiction or to state an offense.” (emphasis added). The

District Court entered its judgment and commitment order on March 16, 2006, and our

affirmance was entered on September 11, 2007. Blood did not file a petition for certiorari

with the Supreme Court. The District Court correctly found that when Blood filed his

Rule 12(b)(3)(B) motion, over eight months after we entered judgment, his case was no

longer pending, and thus relief under that Rule was unavailable to him. Cf. Jimenez v.

Quarterman, 129 S. Ct. 681, 685 (2009) (conclusion of direct review for federal prisoner

occurs when Supreme Court affirms conviction on the merits, denies petition for

certiorari, or when time for filing certiorari petition expires).

              With regard to Blood’s Rule 36 motion, the District Court correctly found

that Blood had failed to identify a “clerical error in [the] judgment, order, or other part of

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the record,” or “an error in the record arising from oversight or omission.” Fed. R. Crim.

P. Rule 36. Specifically, neither the District Court’s designation of Blood’s case as

“closed,” nor its inclusion of Richard G. Andrews and Douglas Edward McCann as

attorneys representing the United States, are errors requiring correction.

              There being no substantial question presented by Burnam’s appeal, we will

grant the Government’s motion and summarily affirm the District Court’s order. See

LAR 27.4; I.O.P. 10.6.

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