Carl E. Cook v. Jack A. Hanberry, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia

A federal prisoner currently serving sentences for bank robbery and assaulting a fellow inmate with a deadly weapon, Cook filed a pro se petition, styled under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, seeking release or return from the Atlanta Prison where he was then incarcerated to a facility on the West Coast where he had previously been confined.

The general rule in federal cases requires that an actual controversy exist at all stages of appellate review, “and not simply at the date the action is initiated.” Roe v. Wade, 1972, 410 U.S. 113, 125, 93 S.Ct. 705, 712, 35 L.Ed.2d 147. Insofar as Cook’s petitions…