In an abrupt about-face, federal prosecutors are rescinding a request to appeal the habeas corpus writ granted to Pablo Villavicencio, the pizza delivery man handed over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials after making a stop at the Brooklyn Fort Hamilton military facility in June.

The office of U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman of the Southern District of New York alerted the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit early Friday that an agreement to withdraw the government’s appeal, with prejudice. The two-line stipulation filed with the circuit provides no explanatory information about the government’s motives or thinking behind withdrawing the appeal.