decision in this case, the Court agreed to review two cases involving the constitutionality of sentence enhancements under the federal Guidelines — United States v. Booker and a companion case, United States v. Fanfan — an extraordinary step for the Court to take during the summer months. The Court ordered the briefs in Booker to be submitted during the month of September 2004, and scheduled oral argument in Booker for the first day of the 2004 Term, Monday, October 4. The Court's opinion in Booker came out on January 12, 2005, and drastically changed the legal framework within which federal sentencing takes place. Also, many states had to decide how Blakely applied to their sentencing systems. California, notably, concluded it did not affect its sentencing scheme in a case decided by the California Supreme Court called People v. Black. The U.S. Supreme Court later concluded that Blakely did apply in California, thereby overruling Black with its decision in Cunningham v. California. Subsequent developments One week before release of the opinion which invalidated Blakely's sentence, John Knodell III, the Grant County prosecutor who lost the prior case before the U.S. Supreme Court, obtained authorization for a new warrant alleging Blakely solicited a planted prison informant for the murder of Blakely's wife and daughter. Blakely is now serving 35 years in prison due to this separate case. Knodell personally prosecuted this second case against Blakely. Blakely made a claim of prosecutorial vindictiveness, asserting Knodell vindictively filed the criminal solicitation charge in retaliation for Blakely's successful appeal of his sentence in Blakely, 542 U.S. 296, 124 S. Ct. 2531, 159 L. Ed. 2d 403, but the court of appeals rejected Blakely's claim. See also List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 542 List of United States Supreme Court cases References Further reading WASHINGTON VS BLAKELY appeal denying legal papers for defense https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/memoranda/2018/12/03/18-35647.pdf External links State sentencing commission responses to Blakely, compiled by the United States Sentencing Commission Transcript of the oral argument Amicus brief of the ACLU Response of the Department of Justice to Blakely Amicus brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Sentencing Law and Policy Blog by Prof. Douglas Berman, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law United States Supreme Court cases 2004 in United States case law United States Sixth Amendment sentencing case law United States Supreme Court cases of the Rehnquist Court