Legal Opinion
United States v. Horace John Knights, A/K/A John Knights Aaron McAdoo Lyttleton Knights
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 23, 1992No. 1476, Docket 92-1016PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:
Just before the trial of Lyttleton Knights and his co-defendants was scheduled to begin, Knights pled guilty and agreed to cooperate by testifying against one of the co-defendants. The plea agreement provided that the government would move for a “substantial assistance” downward departure under § 5K1.1 of the sentencing guidelines if the prosecution, in its “sole and unfettered discretion”, was satisfied with Knights’s cooperation. Knights testified, but the government refused to move for a downward departure. At his sentencing proceeding before the United…
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