United States v. Ramirez

Full title: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. VALENTIN CARDINEZ RAMIREZ…

Court: United States District Court, Ninth Circuit, California, E.D. California

Date published: Jun 18, 2013

CR. 2:09-00380-05 WBS (E.D. Cal. Jun. 18, 2013)

Opinion

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. VALENTIN CARDINEZ RAMIREZ, Defendant. No. CR. 2:09-00380-05 WBS United States District Court, E.D. California. June 18, 2013

          ORDER

          WILLIAM B. SHUBB, District Judge.

         Defendant Valentin Cardinez Ramirez has filed with the court a document entitled Petition for Commutation of Sentence. (Docket No. 241.) The Petition is submitted on a form provided by the United States Department of Justice, Office of the Pardon Attorney, and requests "Executive Clemency" in the form of a reduction of defendant's prison sentence. The power to grant executive clemency rests exclusively with the President of the United States, and this court has no authority to commute a sentence. See United States Constitution, Art. II, § 2, cl. 1; 28 U.S.C. § 1.1 et seq.

         IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that defendant's Petition for Commutation of Sentence be, and the same hereby is DISMISSED.