NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS AUG 23 2022

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 20-10395

Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 1:99-cr-00465-ACK-1

v.

DOUGLAS AKIRA HIRANO, AKA Kevin MEMORANDUM* Higashi,

Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii Alan C. Kay, District Judge, Presiding

Submitted August 17, 2022**

Before: S.R. THOMAS, PAEZ, and LEE, Circuit Judges.

Douglas Akira Hirano appeals from the district court’s judgment and

challenges the 8-month sentence and a special condition of supervised release

imposed upon revocation of supervised release. We dismiss his appeal as moot.

While this appeal was pending, Hirano finished serving his 8-month

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). sentence and had his supervised release revoked again. Because he is no longer

subject to the sentence imposed by the judgment on appeal, we can provide no

effective relief as to his claims of sentencing error, and we dismiss this appeal as

moot. See United States v. Palomba, 182 F.3d 1121, 1123 (9th Cir. 1999).

DISMISSED.

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