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Date Created: 2014-06-30 17:00:08.589674+00
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ALD-263                                                       NOT PRECEDENTIAL

                       UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                            FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT
                                 ___________

                                      No. 14-1172
                                      ___________

                           UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

                                            v.

                                BRENT JENKINS,
                                           Appellant
                      ____________________________________

                    On Appeal from the United States District Court
                        for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
                         (D.C. Crim. No. 4-10-cr-00319-008)
                     District Judge: Honorable John E. Jones, III
                     ____________________________________

                        Submitted for Possible Summary Action
                   Pursuant to Third Circuit LAR 27.4 and I.O.P. 10.6
                                     June 19, 2014

         Before: RENDELL, FISHER and GREENAWAY, JR., Circuit Judges

                             (Opinion filed: June 30, 2014)
                                      _________

                                       OPINION
                                       _________

PER CURIAM

      Brent Jenkins pleaded guilty in this matter to one count of conspiring to distribute

crack cocaine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846, and the District Court sentenced him to 60

months of imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release. Jenkins’s
conduct also constituted a violation of the terms of supervised release imposed following

his prior guilty plea to another controlled substance offense in M.D. Pa. Crim. No. 4-09-

cr-00231 (the “2009 proceeding”). In the 2009 proceeding, the District Court held a

supervised release revocation hearing and sentenced Jenkins to two years in prison on

February 20, 2014. The District Court also specified that its sentence was consecutive to

the prison sentence imposed in the instant proceeding. Jenkins has not appealed or

otherwise sought relief from that judgment in the 2009 proceeding.

       At issue here is a motion that Jones filed in the instant proceeding before the

District Court revoked his supervised release in the 2009 proceeding. Jones captioned his

motion as one to waive a probation1 revocation hearing pursuant to Rule 32.1(b)(2) of the

Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. He did not specifically refer to his 2009

proceeding, and the nature of his motion is not entirely clear, but he requested that the

District Court waive a supervised release revocation hearing and instead vacate his prior

term of supervised release or make his sentence for violating the terms of supervised

release concurrent to his current prison sentence. He also complained of delays in the

holding of a supervised release revocation hearing and asserted that his supervised release

violation acted as a detainer rendering him ineligible for certain prison programs. The

District Court read Jones’s motion as a challenge to the term of supervised release

imposed in the instant proceeding and denied it as premature because Jones is still

1
 Jones uses the terms “probation” and “supervised release” interchangeably, but we will
use the term “supervised release.”
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serving his prison sentence. Jones appealed and, for the first time in his notice of appeal,

specified that his challenge was based on his violation of the terms of the supervised

release imposed in his 2009 proceeding. Jones filed his notice of appeal before the

District Court revoked his supervised release in the 2009 proceeding, and he has not filed

anything in support of his appeal since that development or otherwise.

       We will affirm.2 To the extent that Jones sought relief premised on a supervised

release revocation hearing to be held in his 2009 proceeding, his request is moot because

the hearing has been conducted. To the extent that Jones addressed his motion to the

supervised release imposed in the instant proceeding, his motion states no discernible

basis for relief. Jones relies on Rule 32.1(b)(2), but that rule merely permits a defendant

to waive a supervised release revocation hearing. Such a hearing was conducted and has

concluded in Jones’s 2009 proceeding, the results of which Jones has not appealed, and

there is no indication that Jones presently faces revocation of the term of supervised

release imposed in the instant proceeding. For these reasons, we will affirm the judgment

of the District Court.

2
  Jones’s appeal is timely under the deadline applicable to appeals in civil cases but not
the deadline applicable in criminal cases. See Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(B)(i), 4(b)(1)(A).
We need not determine which deadline applies because the deadline applicable in
criminal cases is not jurisdictional and the Government has not sought to enforce it. See
United States v. Muhammud, 701 F.3d 109, 111 (3d Cir. 2012).
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