Jeffrey Castleberry v. Florida
Punishment
1) Does the Americans with Disabities Act (ADA) require State Trial Courts to make reasonable accommodations for persons with mental disabilities?
2) When a person being sentenced for a crime is physically an adult, but mertally still a child because of organic brain damage, how should the trial Court sentence them?
a) Disregard the Orgaric braindamage and sertence then as a mature adult because of the physical age of the body.
b) Take the organic braindamage into consideration and sentence them as a child because mertaly they are still a child.
c) Other
3) Does the U.S. Constitutions 8Th Amendment ban against cruel and unusua) punishment require State trial courts to consider the al before imposing sentencing?
4) Can a person lose a U.S. Constitutional right 30 years before that right is even recognized by this Courtand ruled to apply retro-active?
Does the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) require State trial courts to make reasonable accommodations for persons with mental disabilities?