IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA

BRICK P. HOUSTON, JR. No. 64052 Petitioner, vs. JAMES G. COX, DIRECTOR OF DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS; FILED AND JAMES BACA, WARDEN OF NOV 1; 2014 NORTHERN NEVADA TRAGIE K. LINDEMAN CORRECTIONAL CENTER, CLERK. OF SUPREME COURT CY Respondents. DEPUTY CLER

ORDER DISMISSING PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS This proper person original petition for a writ of mandamus challenges respondents' calculation of petitioner's release date from incarceration and asks this court to order petitioner's release. Petitioner asserts that respondents failed to reduce his sentence with the good time credits he earned and that, as a result, he is illegally incarcerated.

Petitioner seeks an order from this court directing respondents to release him from prison. But since petitioner filed his petition, he has been released from prison, making this court "unable to grant effective relief." Personhood Nev. v. Bristol, 126 Nev. , 245 P.3d 572, 574 (2010).

Accordingly, we dismiss the petition as moot See id. (holding that a case that initially presented a live controversy may be rendered moot by subsequent events).

It is so ORDERED.

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