Opinion
No. 11-6250.
Submitted: May 19, 2011.
Decided: May 24, 2011.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at Raleigh. Louise W. Flanagan, Chief District Judge. (5:10-hc-02130-FL).
George Albert Hood, Appellant Pro Se. Christina Ann Kelley, Bureau of Prisons, Butner, North Carolina, for Appellee.
Before TRAXLER, Chief Judge, and AGEE and KEENAN, Circuit Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished PER CURIAM opinion.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
George Albert Hood, a detainee pending commitment proceedings pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4248 (2006), appeals the district court's order dismissing his 28 U.S.C.A. § 2241 (West 2006 Supp. 2010) petition, which sought his release. The district court has since dismissed the 18 U.S.C. § 4248 action in accord with a joint stipulation of the parties and Hood has been released. As a result of Hood's release, "there is no wrong to remedy and an appeal should . . . be dismissed . . . when, by virtue of an intervening event, a court of appeals cannot grant any effectual relief whatever in favor of the appellant." United States v. Hardy, 545 F.3d 280, 285 (4th Cir. 2008) (quoting Calderon v. Moore, 518 U.S. 149, 150, 116 S.Ct. 2066, 135 L.Ed.2d 453 (1996)) (internal quotation marks omitted). Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal as moot. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED.