No. 18-5669
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process due-process,fifth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,s fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment life-without-parole massachusetts-law sentencing
Key Terms:
DueProcess FifthAmendment
DueProcess FifthAmendment
Latest Conference:
2018-10-05
Question Presented (from Petition)
Whether, pursuant to the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the petitioner can be punished with a sentence of life without parole, when he was never charged, tried, nor convicted of first degree murder, the only sentence in Massachusetts attached to first degree murder.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the petitioner can be punished with life without parole when not charged, tried, or convicted of first-degree murder
Docket Entries
2018-10-09
Petition DENIED.
2018-09-20
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/5/2018.
2018-09-14
Waiver of right of respondent Massachusetts to respond filed.
2018-05-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 19, 2018)
Attorneys
Massachusetts
Randall Evan Ravitz — Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, Respondent
Peter Cruz
Peter Cruz — Petitioner