Nelson Morales v. U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Non-Argument Calendar.
1Per curiam
Petitioner Nelson Morales appeals the dismissal of his petition for a writ of mandamus compelling the presentation of evidence to a special grand jury. The district court dismissed the petition for lack of subject matter jurisdiction and for failure to state a claim. Because we determine Morales lacks the standing necessary for us to adjudicate this claim, we affirm the district court’s dismissal.
I. BACKGROUND
We review the prior prosecutions before turning to Morales’s claim.
A. The 1996 Murders
On February 24, 1996, the Cuban Air Force shot down two civilian planes in international airspace.…
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