United States District Court for the District of AlaskaRetired 2024 · served 2020–2024Appointed by Donald Trump (Republican) 15 signed orders read
Judge Kindred no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
United States v. Spayd
3:19-cr-00111-JMK-MMS · 2022-09-13
Motion to dismiss indictment (defendant)Denied
“the Superseding Indictment sufficiently alleges all elements of a Section 841 violation after Ruan. As such, Ms. Spayd's Motion to Dismiss the Indictment is DENIED.”
Motion to dismiss indictment (plaintiff (United States))Granted
“Having duly considered both the Motion, pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 48(a), the Motion at Docket 146 is hereby GRANTED. The First Superseding Indictment at Docket 19 is dismissed without prejudice as to Mr. Breitenstein.”
“Magistrate Judge Scoble recommended that Defendant's Motion to Suppress at Docket 31 should be denied. Accordingly, the Court adopts the Final Report and Recommendation at Docket 71. The Motion to Suppress at Docket 31 is DENIED.”
“The Motion to Request Leave to Amend at Docket 71 is GRANTED. The Clerk of Court is directed to amend the entry at Docket 74 to reflect that it is the Third Amended Complaint.”
From public federal docket records for this judge.
The sampled docket spans Kindred's first full year on the bench, including inherited and newly filed 2020 cases that were mostly resolved in 2020 and 2021, together with later criminal and civil orders. The matters include diversity insurance suits, Social Security appeals, a Privacy Act claim, and self-represented prisoner civil-rights and screening cases.
A historical record
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