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No. 12-8144
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, at Raleigh.
Terrence W. Boyle,
District Judge. (5:10-hc-02151-BO)
Submitted:
Before TRAXLER,
Judges.
Chief
Decided:
Judge,
and
MOTZ
and
KEENAN,
Circuit
PER CURIAM:
Walter
Wooden
appeals
the
district
courts
order
4248(a)
(2006).
We
vacate
and
remand
for
further
proceedings.
In
July
2010,
the
Government
initiated
civil
determined
that
Wooden
was
not
sexually
dangerous
On
We
The
district court stated that the law of the case in this matter
prescribes that on those issues previously found in favor of Mr.
Wooden
and
against
prevails.
the
(J.A. 353).
[G]overnment,
the
[G]overnment
now
The law of
the case doctrine posits that when a court decides upon a rule
of law, that decision should continue to govern the same issues
in subsequent stages in the same case.
F.3d
297,
omitted).
308
(4th
Cir.
2011)
(internal
quotation
marks
[w]hen
this
court
for
further
Id. (quoting
to
the
serious-difficulty
prong,
we
likewise
found
the
evidence
was
presented
at
trial
and
the
district
id.
at
459
(The
district
court
also
failed
to
460
(Because
the
district
court
did
not
consider
this
and
persistence
of
Woodens
child-focused
sexual
fantasies,
in
light
of
the
record
viewed
in
its
entirety.
support
the
result
reached
by
the
district
court,
see
reconsideration
in
light
of
the
questions
about
the
Because
entry
of
judgment
for
the
government,
our
mandate
conflicting
evidence,
could
perhaps
support
the
district
contrary
to
the
district
courts
conclusion, our mandate thus did not require the district court
on remand to find Wooden to be sexually dangerous.
Because the
the
district
courts
5
order
and
remand
for
the
and
in
accordance
our
original
with
the
opinion.
guidance
We
given
dispense
in
this
with
oral