Court Opinion

ID: 9814657
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 00:00:43.403213+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:42:15.250472
License: Public Domain

KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge, concurring.
Although I am persuaded by the arguments advanced by the majority, I write separately because I would hold recent events in this case have rendered Thompson’s appeal moot. On January 26, 2012, Thompson signed a plea agreement with the government. The district court accepted Thompson’s guilty plea and adjudged him guilty in open court following a plea colloquy on that same day. Because the relief Thompson requests may no longer be granted, I would dismiss Thompson’s appeal as moot. Should the course of events below resurrect this controversy, I would have no objection to considering whatever issues become live at that time.