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Terrance Douglas Baker v. United States
IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 23-3534 · judgment February 28, 2025
Certiorari denied · December 8, 2025
Question presented
Does a district court violate Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(C)(1) when it relies upon news stories or other information outside the record in determining a defendant’s sentence without prior disclosure to the parties, as the Sixth and Third Circuits have held, or may a district court rely upon previously undisclosed and dubiously relevant facts and statistics in imposing a defendant’s sentence, as the Ninth Circuit held below.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Elizabeth Richardson-Royer
For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General
Proceedings
- Dec 08 2025Petition DENIED.
- Nov 13 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/5/2025.
- Nov 07 2025Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
- Oct 24 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 28, 2025)
- Aug 26 2025Application (25A225) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until October 25, 2025.
- Aug 13 2025Application (25A225) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from August 26, 2025 to October 25, 2025, submitted to Justice Kagan.