No. 18-7034
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 8th-amendment criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-penalty developmental-disability eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing parole
Latest Conference:
2019-02-15
Question Presented (from Petition)
Does the Eighth Amendment bar individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities from mandatory life without parole sentences?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Does the Eighth Amendment bar individuals with intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities from receiving mandatory-life-imprisonment-without-parole sentences?
Docket Entries
2019-02-19
Petition DENIED.
2019-01-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/15/2019.
2019-01-02
Waiver of right of respondent Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to respond filed.
2018-09-11
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 14, 2019)
Attorneys
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Karen T. Edwards — Office of the District Attorney, Respondent
Shawn Sadik
Lea T. Bickerton — Bickerton and Bickerton, Attorneys at Law, Petitioner