A.M., a Minor v. Jerry Butler, Superintendent of the Illinois Youth Center

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• noting that probation constitutes “in custody” for purposes of fulfilling the jurisdictional requirements for habeas corpus relief (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• finding that habeas petition was not moot because juvenile delinquency adjudication created sufficient adverse collateral conse- quences
• stating that “[i]f there was no underlying constitutional viola- tion, a motion to suppress would have been futile and counsel could not be viewed as ineffective for failing to present such a motion”
• A federal court must dismiss a case at “any stage of the proceeding” when it can no longer “give the petitioner any effective relief.”
• “The inability to review moot cases stems from the requirement of Article III of the Constitution which limits the exercise of judicial power to live cases or controversies.”
• “[A] federal court No. 06-2254 9 at any stage of the proceedings must, on its own, dismiss a case as moot when it cannot give the petitioner any effective relief.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).