No. 18-8041
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: adolescent-culpability age-as-factor age-of-culpability brain-development criminal-procedure de-facto-life-sentence due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana roper-v-simmons
Latest Conference:
2019-03-22
Question Presented (from Petition)
This Court has issued at least four decision finding that adolescents are less culpable than adults. Dr. Laurence Steinberg has determined that the line for this or these finding should not be stopped at age 17 since, as this Court has noted, does reach full maturity until age 25. Do this Courts rulings regarding when age is a factor in determining whether evena de facto life is is constitutionally not allowed applied to those under the age of 25, or is the age lower, but not below 18?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the Court's rulings regarding when age is a factor in determining culpability apply to those under the age of 25, or is the age lower, but not below 18?
Docket Entries
2019-03-25
Petition DENIED.
2019-03-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/22/2019.
2019-02-28
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-02-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 25, 2019)
Attorneys
Mark Johnson
Mark Johnson — Petitioner
United States
Noel J. Francisco — Solicitor General, Respondent