Kailash Chaudhary v. Board of Prison Terms

FILED NOT FOR PUBLICATION OCT 05 2011 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT KAILASH CHANDRA CHAUDHARY, No. 10-17236 Ph. D., D.C. No. 5:09-cv-03560-RMW Petitioner - Appellant, v. MEMORANDUM * BOARD OF PRISON TERMS, et al., Respondents - Appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Ronald M. Whyte, District Judge, Presiding Submitted September 27, 2011 ** Before: SILVERMAN, W. FLETCHER, and MURGUIA, Circuit Judges. Former California state prisoner Kailash Chandra Chaudhary appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, and we dismiss the appeal as moot. * This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3. ** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). Chaudhary contends that his federal due process rights were violated by the state’s failure to give him credit, against the five-year service requirement under California Penal Code § 3000.1(b), for the time served between the date that the Board granted him parole and the date that the state court reversed the Governor’s decision denying the grant of parole. Chaudhary has now been discharged from parole. Thus, his appeal is moot. See Calderon v. Moore, 518 U.S. 149, 150 (1996) (per curiam) (“[A]n appeal should . . . be dismissed as moot when, by virtue of an intervening event, a court of appeals cannot grant any effectual relief whatever in favor of the appellant[.]”) (internal quotation marks omitted). We construe Chaudhary’s additional arguments as a motion to expand the certificate of appealability. So construed, the motion is denied. See 9th Cir. R. 22- 1(e); Hiivala v. Wood, 195 F.3d 1098, 1104-05 (9th Cir. 1999) (per curiam). DISMISSED. 2 10-17236