No. 20-1155

Jonas David Nelson v. Minnesota

Lower Court: Minnesota
Docketed: 2021-02-23
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Amici (2)Response Waived Experienced Counsel
Tags: cognitive-deficits cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-without-parole mental-illness proportionality proportionality-review
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment CriminalProcedure
Latest Conference: 2021-04-16
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether the Eighth Amendment right to narrow proportionality review of sentences of life without release entails a right to a hearing at which evidence may be presented sufficient to sustain a claim of gross disproportionality.

2. Whether the Eighth Amendment or Equal Protection Clause guarantees defendants who are just barely chronological adults a hearing at which evidence may be presented sufficient to sustain a claim that they are materially indistinguishable from juveniles for Eighth Amendment purposes.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Eighth Amendment right to narrow proportionality review of sentences of life without release entails a right to a hearing at which evidence may be presented sufficient to sustain a claim of gross disproportionality

Docket Entries

2021-04-19
Petition DENIED.
2021-03-25
Brief amicus curiae of Due Process Institute filed. (Distributed)
2021-03-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/16/2021.
2021-03-24
Brief amicus curiae of The Rutherford Institute filed. (Distributed)
2021-03-04
Waiver of right of respondent State of Minnesota to respond filed.
2021-02-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 25, 2021)

Attorneys

Due Process Institute
Catherine S. SimonsenWhite & Case LLP, Amicus
Jonas David Nelson
Andrew Timothy TuttArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, Petitioner
State of Minnesota
Edwin W. StockmeyerOffice of the Minnesota Attorney General, Respondent
The Rutherford Institute
Lyle David KossisMcGuireWoods LLP, Amicus