Knox v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a “judge’s commitment to impose a sentence based upon a defendant’s breach of a hammer clause condition, coupled with the imposition of that sentence without proper consideration of other relevant factors, is an abuse of discretion”
• remanding for new sentencing hearing because the trial judge applied the hammer clause without exercising independent discretion
• “[I]t is not within the purview of the judiciary to tell prosecutors and defense counsel that a hammer clause may not be part of a plea agreement. ... [T]he making of an agreement whereby the Commonwealth binds itself to recommend a particular sentence is a power of the executive branch.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Helms v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2015-05-29· cited 57×
• Webster v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2014-06-19· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Derringer
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2012-12-20· cited 16×
• Prater v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2014-02-20· cited 11×
• Gaines v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2014-08-21· cited 8×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Boykin v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-02· cited 12,640×
• North Carolina v. Alford
  Supreme Court· 1970-11-23· cited 9,465×
• Hoskins v. Maricle
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-12-16· cited 335×
• Anderson v. Johnson
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2011-09-22· cited 108×
• McClanahan v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2010-04-22· cited 77×
• Hughes v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1994-06-16· cited 35×
• Brewer v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1977-01-14· cited 31×
• Chapman v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2008-04-21· cited 28×
• Moore v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1998-11-19· cited 26×
• Misher v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1978-09-08· cited 10×
• Matheny v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-02-22· cited 10×
• Alcorn v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1977-10-28· cited 7×