MEMORANDUM **

Leonel Mendoza-Martinez appeals his alien smuggling conviction. See 8 U.S.C. § 1324. He argues that the district court’s denial of his request to continue the trial on September 11, 2001, violated his right to a fair trial. See U.S. Const. Amend. VI. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.

(1) Mendoza-Martinez’s claim is moot. Moments after the district court denied his request to “continue the trial at least a day or so,” the courthouse was shut down by an order of the Chief Judge, and the case was continued until the following day. Mendoza-Martinez’s claim that he should *804have been granted a continuance is moot, because his case was in fact continued. See Connolly v. Pension Ben. Guar. Corp., 673 F.2d 1110, 1113 (9th Cir. 1982); see also Dudley v. Anderson (In re Dudley), 249 F.3d 1170, 1172-73 (9th Cir. 2001).

(2) Mendoza-Martinez argues that because of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, a jury chosen that day could not have considered the alien smuggling charges against him in a fair and unbiased manner. However, he presented no evidence of a nexus between his case and any September 11th media coverage that could have biased a jury against him. See United States v. Sherwood, 98 F.3d 402, 410 (9th Cir. 1996).1 Moreover, Mendoza-Martinez failed to produce any evidence that the community had been saturated with prejudicial and inflammatory media coverage about his crime, or that the jurors evinced “actual partiality or hostility that could not be laid aside.” Id. at 410.2

On this record, then, we cannot conclude that the district court’s denial of the motion was an abuse of discretion. See United States v. Garrett, 179 F.3d 1143, 1144-45 (9th Cir. 1999) (en banc).

AFFIRMED.