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Date Created: 2023-05-03 18:00:41.474462+00
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Case: 21-40916        Document: 00516735928             Page: 1      Date Filed: 05/03/2023

             United States Court of Appeals
                  for the Fifth Circuit                                        United States Court of Appeals
                                     ____________                                       Fifth Circuit

                                                                                      FILED
                                      No. 21-40916                                   May 3, 2023
                                    Summary Calendar
                                                                                 Lyle W. Cayce
                                    ____________                                      Clerk

   United States of America,

                                                                      Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                            versus

   Jason Michael Ehret,

                                              Defendant—Appellant.
                     ______________________________

                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                         for the Southern District of Texas
                              USDC No. 2:16-CR-801-1
                     ______________________________

   Before Clement, Graves, and Wilson, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
         Jason Michael Ehret, former federal prisoner # 18467-479, was
   sentenced to an 87-month term of imprisonment and a lifetime term of
   supervised release following his plea of guilty to possession of child
   pornography. Ehret filed two motions in the district court pursuant to 18
   U.S.C. § 3583(e)(2) seeking to modify the conditions of his supervised

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         *
             This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 21-40916       Document: 00516735928             Page: 2      Date Filed: 05/03/2023

                                        No. 21-40916

   release. The district court dismissed the motions based on its determinations
   that the motions were unripe and that they improperly challenged the
   conditions of supervised release as illegal or unconstitutional. Ehret now
   appeals the dismissal of these motions.
           Requests for modification are premature or unripe if they are
   speculative or rest on contingent future events that may not occur as
   anticipated. United States v. Carmichael, 343 F.3d 756, 761 (5th Cir. 2003).
   Although, as Ehret notes, the district court did not explain in specific detail
   the precise basis for its lack-of-ripeness determination, we note that Ehret’s
   term of supervised release did not begin until he was released from the
   custody of the Bureau of Prisons in December 2022, well after he filed the
   instant motions. See United States v. Johnson, 529 U.S. 53, 57 (2000). Ehret
   thus fails to show error in the district court’s determination that his
   § 3583(e)(2) motions, which were filed approximately one year before he was
   released, were unripe. See Carmichael, 343 F.3d at 761. 1
          In view of the foregoing, the decision of the district court is
   AFFIRMED. Ehret’s motion for the appointment of counsel is DENIED.

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             This disposition does not prejudice Ehret from moving to modify the conditions
   of his supervised release now that his term of supervised release has begun.

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