Thompson v. Thalacker

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER REGARDING “MOOTNESS”

BENNETT, District Judge.

While an inmate at a state reformatory, petitioner filed this action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 against the warden of the reformatory, alleging violation of his due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, because he was deprived of an impartial factfinder during two separate prison disciplinary actions. Prior to the resolution of this habeas corpus action, the petitioner was discharged from prison, then rearrested and charged with new, unrelated felony counts. Before this court may address the merits…