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Knight was sentenced to 42 months on civil-rights counts he already admitted.
On Tuesday, Sept. 22, in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Judge Paul S. Diamond sentenced Christopher Knight, 48, of Philadelphia, to 42 months and then one year of supervised release. The sentence follows a March guilty plea to civil-rights counts he already admitted.
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·
A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the counts that were admitted. It is not a new accusation, and it is not a trial verdict. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond sentenced Christopher Knight, 48, of Philadelphia, to 42 months in federal prison and one year of supervised release. He had pleaded guilty in March to five counts of depriving individuals of their civil rights under color of law and two counts of falsifying records.
Knight was a sergeant at Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility. Prosecutors said that in January and March 2023 he pepper-sprayed five subdued inmates, including inmates who were face-down or not posing a threat, and falsified use-of-force reports. Those facts are the case narrative behind the March plea. Tuesday's hearing imposed the sentence on counts he already admitted. It did not file a new charge.
U.S. Attorney David Metcalf's office announced the sentence. The 42 months and the one year of supervised release are one judgment. Supervised release is part of that sentence. It is not a second case. The five civil-rights counts and the two false-records counts are the counts in the March plea. They are not new accusations announced when Judge Diamond imposed sentence.
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