No. 19-5262

Eulos Ceasar Knight v. United States

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-07-22
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error criminal-record due-process guidelines johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker welch-v-united-states
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2019-11-22
Question Presented (from Petition)

Where sentencing is imposed based on misinformation of constitutional magnitude regarding the import of the defendant's criminal record, did the Ninth Circuit's deviation from this Court's standard in Tucker, by requiring more than evidence that the sentence "might have been different" if the judge had the correct information, result in an unconstitutionally unreliable sentence in violation of due process of law?

In any event, should the Court grant the writ, vacate the denial of relief, and remand for the district court to apply the due process standard to the facts of the case because, in the absence of any explanation from the sentencing judge, the Ninth Circuit should have remanded to permit the trial court to make the missing findings in the first instance under this Court's precedent prioritizing the district court's role in making initial factual determinations and presuming prejudice from Guidelines errors?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in requiring more than evidence that the sentence 'might have been different' to establish a due process violation under United States v. Tucker

Docket Entries

2019-11-25
Petition DENIED.
2019-11-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/22/2019.
2019-11-05
Reply of petitioner Eulos Knight filed. (Distributed)
2019-10-21
Brief of respondent United States of America in opposition filed.
2019-09-16
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including October 21, 2019.
2019-09-13
Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 20, 2019 to October 21, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
2019-08-14
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including September 20, 2019.
2019-08-13
Motion to extend the time to file a response from August 21, 2019 to September 20, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
2019-07-17
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 21, 2019)

Attorneys

Eulos Knight
Stephen Reese SadyOregon Federal Public Defender, Petitioner
United States of America
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent