No. 19-91
Michele Buckner, Warden v. Robert W. Allen
Tags: consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-relief juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole parole-eligibility
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity Punishment HabeasCorpus
SocialSecurity Punishment HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference:
2019-10-01
Question Presented (from Petition)
Under the Eighth Amendment, may a State sentence a juvenile offender convicted of multiple crimes to multiple consecutive terms of years in prison under which the offender has aggregate parole eligibility after serving 53 years, including a mandatory term of imprisonment without parole for 50 years?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a State may sentence a juvenile offender convicted of multiple crimes to multiple consecutive terms of years in prison under which the offender has aggregate parole eligibility after serving 53 years, including a mandatory term of imprisonment without parole for 50 years, under the Eighth Amendment
Docket Entries
2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-08-21
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-08-19
Reply of petitioner Michele Buckner filed.
2019-08-02
Brief of respondent Robert W. Allen in opposition filed.
2019-07-03
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 19, 2019)
2019-05-29
Application (18A1227) granted by Justice Gorsuch extending the time to file until July 3, 2019.
2019-05-24
Application (18A1227) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from June 3, 2019 to July 3, 2019, submitted to Justice Gorsuch.
Attorneys
Michele Buckner
D. John Sauer — Office of the Attorney General, Petitioner
Robert W. Allen
Stuart Banner — UCLA School of Law Supreme Court Clinic, Respondent