Jonas David Nelson v. Minnesota
DueProcess Punishment CriminalProcedure
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.
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