No. 25-5974

Terrance Douglas Baker v. United States

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-10-28
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion rule-32 sentencing
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2025-12-05
Question Presented (AI Summary)

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

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

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 Circuit s 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.

Docket Entries

2025-12-08
Petition DENIED.
2025-11-13
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/5/2025.
2025-11-07
Waiver of United States of America of right to respond submitted.
2025-11-07
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2025-10-24
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 28, 2025)
2025-08-26
Application (25A225) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until October 25, 2025.
2025-08-13
Application (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.

Attorneys

Terrance Baker
Elizabeth Richardson-Royer — Petitioner
Elizabeth Richardson-Royer — Petitioner
United States of America
D. John SauerSolicitor General, Respondent
D. John SauerSolicitor General, Respondent