UNITED STATES v. EMERY

No. 19-3752.

18 F.4th 585 (2021)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Steven William EMERY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: November 19, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Elmore , Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota, Pierre, SD, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Edward Albright , Assistant Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender's Office, Pierre, SD, Bryan Dean , Federal Public Defender's Office, Bismarck, ND, Jason J. Tupman , Assistant Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender's Office, Sioux Falls, SD, for Defendant-Appellant.

Steven William Emery, Littleton, CO, Pro Se.

Before SHEPHERD, STRAS, and KOBES, Circuit Judges.


Steven Emery remains at large after escaping from a residential reentry center just over four months ago. Having given him a chance to surrender and respond to an order to show cause, we now exercise our discretion and dismiss the appeal under the fugitive-disentitlement doctrine.

The doctrine, also known as the fugitive...

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