GIBSON v. PAROLE COMMISSION

Filing 14

MEMORANDUM OPINION accompanying final order issued separately this day. Signed by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on 6/30/16.(ah)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Aaron Gibson,
Petitioner,
v.
Parole Commission,
Respondent.

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Civil Action No. 16-0219 (CKK)

MEMORANDUM OPINION
In February 2016, petitioner filed this action for a writ of habeas corpus while detained at
the District of Columbia Jail on a parole violator warrant issued by the United States Parole
Commission (“USPC”). Petitioner claims that the warrant was executed on January 6, 2016, but
the Commission had yet to hold a hearing, in violation of the due process clause. See Pet. for a
Writ of Habeas Corpus at 5.
In response to the Court’s show cause order, the government contends that the petition is
moot because petitioner is serving a sentence for a Virginia state conviction “and is no longer in
custody pursuant to the USPC parole violator warrant.” United States’ Resp. at 1 [Dkt. # 7].
Indeed, the docket shows that petitioner was released from the D.C. Jail on March 17, 2016, and
the court’s subsequent mailings have been returned undelivered. See Dkt. ## 4, 11, 12. In
addition, petitioner has not complied with the Court’s May 2, 2016 Order--mailed to both the
D.C. Jail and a detention center in Winchester, Virginia--by verifying his current address by May
24, 2016, and replying to the government’s response by June 3, 2016. Based on the

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government’s documented response, then, this habeas action will be dismissed as moot. A
separate order accompanies this memorandum.

DATE: June 30, 2016

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COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY
United States District Judge

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