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Deportation Moots Federal Habeas Appeal
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1998, page 22
The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has ruled that deportation, during the appeal from the denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by a state prisoner, moots the appeal.
Filed under:
Disciplinary Litigation,
Civil Procedure,
Appeals,
Mootness,
Habeas Corpus,
Immigration.
Location:
Indiana.
Fabio Diaz, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, was an Indiana state prisoner. During his incarceration, ...
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