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Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 10-6534 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Petitioner - Appellant, v. LONNIE PARKER, JR., Respondent - Appellee. No. 10-6536 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Petitioner - Appellant, v. JAMES WOODRUFF, Respondent - Appellee. Appeals from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at Raleigh. W. Earl Britt, Senior District Judge. (5:07-hc-02079-BR; 5:07-hc-02110-BR) Submitted: September 8, 2010 Decided: Septemb
Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 10-6534 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Petitioner - Appellant, v. LONNIE PARKER, JR., Respondent - Appellee. No. 10-6536 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Petitioner - Appellant, v. JAMES WOODRUFF, Respondent - Appellee. Appeals from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at Raleigh. W. Earl Britt, Senior District Judge. (5:07-hc-02079-BR; 5:07-hc-02110-BR) Submitted: September 8, 2010 Decided: Septembe..
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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 10-6534
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Petitioner - Appellant,
v.
LONNIE PARKER, JR.,
Respondent - Appellee.
No. 10-6536
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Petitioner - Appellant,
v.
JAMES WOODRUFF,
Respondent - Appellee.
Appeals from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, at Raleigh. W. Earl Britt, Senior
District Judge. (5:07-hc-02079-BR; 5:07-hc-02110-BR)
Submitted: September 8, 2010 Decided: September 16, 2010
Before GREGORY, DUNCAN, and AGEE, Circuit Judges.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
George E. B. Holding, United States Attorney, R.A. Renfer, Jr.,
Assistant United States Attorney, Beth S. Brinkmann, Deputy
Assistant Attorney General, Tony West, Assistant Attorney
General, Mark B. Stern, Anisha S. Dasgupta, DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Thomas P. McNamara,
Federal Public Defender, Jane E. Pearce, Assistant Federal
Public Defender, Eric J. Brignac, Research and Writing
Specialist, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellees.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
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PER CURIAM:
In these consolidated appeals, the Government
challenged the district court’s orders dismissing its 18 U.S.C.
§ 4248 (2006) petitions for civil commitment of Lonnie Parker
and James Woodruff, who were both convicted of various sex
offenses and sentenced in military court-martial proceedings,
but are currently housed within a Bureau of Prisons facility.
The district court dismissed the Government’s petitions because
it found that Ҥ 4248 does not apply to military prisoners
[since] they are not ‘in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons’
pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4248(a).” In so holding, the district
court relied on its order in a related case, United States v.
Joshua, No. 5:09-hc-02035-BR (E.D.N.C. Jan. 13, 2010), which was
recently affirmed by this court. See United States v. Joshua,
607 F.3d 379 (4th Cir. 2010) (holding that an individual
convicted and sentenced by United States Army court-martial but
housed within a facility operated by the Bureau of Prisons is
not “in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons” under § 4248(a)).
The Government concedes that these appeals present the same
issue addressed in, and that the disposition of the appeals is
controlled by Joshua.
Because we agree that Joshua controls the outcome of
these appeals, we affirm the district court’s orders dismissing
the Government’s petitions. Thus, although we deny Appellees’
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unopposed motion for summary disposition as moot, we grant
Appellees’ unopposed motion to issue the mandate forthwith and
order that Appellees be released from confinement. 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.
AFFIRMED
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