No. 25-5689

Kenneth Eugene Gage v. California

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-09-19
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: conviction-status criminal-detention due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-remedy
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2025-11-14
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Where throughout Our Nation ALL criminal defendants are
routinely released, liberty restored, should the felony trial
judge, in exercise of his or her discretion, elect not to produce
document, affix signature to, a "JUDGMENT," (state legislative and
federal law mandate), the sole written, requisite instrument
witnessing on record a disposition of guilt —
May any sane, adult, United States citizen against whom no
"judgment" of guilt exists (in the matter at bar), none documented
none entered on record, no docket listing, and who remains
innocence, be forever detained (44-plus years and continuing),
trial abandoned pre—judgment by both prosecution and defense
counsel?

2. While this court has provided guidance where AEDPA and
successive petition limitations are inapplicable against claims of
unlawful conviction, it is not clearly settled, here a case of
first impression: What burden, or procedural bar, if any, falls
upon a citizen requesting an appropriate remedy, to prove (denied
assistance or re-appointment of counsel) he is NOT convicted of
crime?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a criminal defendant can be detained indefinitely without a formal judgment of guilt when no conviction has been entered on the record, and what procedural remedies exist for challenging such detention

Docket Entries

2025-11-17
Petition DENIED.
2025-10-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/14/2025.
2025-06-02
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 20, 2025)

Attorneys

Kenneth E. Gage
Kenneth Eugene Gage — Petitioner