Summary
This document is a per curiam order from the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit amending a previously filed opinion in a criminal appeal. The court corrected a clerical formatting error by removing bolded text from the citations within the original opinion. The order clarifies that the original filing date of both the opinion and the judgment remains unaltered.
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Questions Presented
- Whether the previously filed appellate opinion should be amended to remove citations that appeared as bolded text.
Key quotations
“As this amendment is clerical in nature, the original filed date of the opinion and the judgment shall not be altered.”
Factual background
The document concerns a clerical amendment to a previously filed appellate opinion. The court stated that citations in the opinion had appeared as bolded text and ordered that the bolding be removed.
Procedural history
Jose Soto appealed from the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in criminal case No. 2-20-00903-002. The Third Circuit amended its opinion for clerical reasons by removing citations that had appeared as bolded text, without altering the original filing date of the opinion or judgment.