Falcone v. Stewart

Full title: KENNETH JOHN FALCONE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. TERRY STEWART, Director…

Court: United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Date published: Oct 22, 1998

157 F.3d 1204 (9th Cir. 1998)

Opinion

No. 96-15755

Filed October 22, 1998

COUNSEL

Kenneth John Falcone, Tucson, Arizona, petitioner-appellant pro se.

Dawn M. Northrup, Assistant Attorney General, Phoenix, Arizona, for the respondents-appellees.

On Remand from the Supreme Court of the United States, D.C. No. CV-91-01041-RGS.

Before: Jerome Farris and A. Wallace Tashima, Circuit Judges, and Tom Stagg, Senior District Judge.^_

_ The Honorable Tom Stagg, Senior United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, sitting by designation.

ORDER

Our judgment in Falcone v. Stewart, 120 F.3d 1082 (9th Cir. 1997), was vacated by the Supreme Court for further consideration in light of Monge v. California, 118 S.Ct. 2246 (1998), and the case remanded to this court.

Our judgment was bottomed on the holding that Falcone's resentencing violated the double jeopardy clause. See Falcone, 120 F.3d at 1087. In Monge, the Court squarely held that double jeopardy has no application in the non-capital sentencing context. 118 S.Ct. at 2253. In light of that holding, we now affirm the district court's judgment denying Falcone's petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

The mandate previously issued in this case is recalled and a new mandate shall issue affirming the judgment of the district court.¹

1 Appellant's motion to dismiss this appeal on the ground that his release pursuant to the writ of habeas corpus issued by the district court in compliance with the mandate rendered this appeal moot is denied. Appellant has since been returned to custody and is now serving the sentence reimposed in case No. CR-89-02205.