Opinion
12-cr-00045 (SRN/JJG)
04-11-2022
United States of America, Plaintiff, v. Sheikh Bilaal Muhammad Arafat, Defendant.
Deidre Y. Aanstad, United States Attorney's Office, for the Government Sheikh Bilaal Muhammad Arafat, Reg. No. 12129-041, Pro Se Defendant
Deidre Y. Aanstad, United States Attorney's Office, for the Government
Sheikh Bilaal Muhammad Arafat, Reg. No. 12129-041, Pro Se Defendant
ORDER
SUSAN RICHARD NELSON, United States District Judge
This matter is before the Court upon Defendant Sheikh Bilaal Muhammad Arafat's Pro Se Emergency Motion for relief [Doc. No. 761]. In that motion, Mr. Arafat raises essentially three claims: (1) that the Federal Bureau of Prisons wrongfully delayed his transfer to a residential reentry center (“RRC”); (2) that he was moved out of the Prison's general housing unit and into more restrictive living arrangements; and (3) that his conditions of confinement are unlawful. (Id.)
After filing this motion, Mr. Arafat was transferred into an RRC, BOP, Inmate Locator, https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/ (last accessed Apr. 11, 2022), and he sent an email to the Court requesting that this motion be dismissed. Mr. Arafat's transfer to an RRC renders his motion moot. See Mickelson v. Holinka, 276 Fed.Appx. 527, 527 (8th Cir. 2008) (dismissing as moot an appeal of petitioner's request for immediate release into an RRC after prisoner was released to RRC by the BOP); Skrzypek v. Roal, No. 11-cv-933 (ADM/SER), 2011 WL 5833661, at *2 (D. Minn. Oct. 12, 2011), R&R adopted, 2011 WL 5593146 (D. Minn. Nov. 17, 2011) (denying as moot an emergency motion and dismissing a petition for habeas corpus requesting immediate release into an RRC after petitioner was transferred to an RRC). Thus, his motion is denied as moot.
Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:
1. Defendant's Emergency Motion for relief [Doc. No. 761] is DENIED AS MOOT.