No. 19-8849
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing parole proportionality second-degree-homicide sentencing sentencing-disparity
Latest Conference:
2020-09-29
Question Presented (from Petition)
Where a juvenile offender is sentenced to a term of 40 years in prison for a second degree homicide, and that sentence places her in a worse position than if she had been given a life sentence for first degree murder, does the forty-year sentence violate the eighth amendment to the United States Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Where a juvenile offender is sentenced to a term of 40 years in prison for a second degree homicide, and that sentence places her in a worse position than if she had been given a life sentence for first degree murder, does the forty-year sentence violate the eighth amendment to the United States Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment?
Docket Entries
2020-10-05
Petition DENIED.
2020-07-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
2020-07-13
Waiver of right of respondent Florida to respond filed.
2020-06-20
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 3, 2020)
Attorneys
Florida
Celia A. Terenzio — Respondent
Linda Pedroza
Linda Pedroza — Petitioner