No. 21-5498

Raymond Concepcion v. Massachusetts

Lower Court: Massachusetts
Docketed: 2021-08-27
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: criminal-procedure eighth-amendment intellectual-disability juvenile-court juvenile-justice mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama proportionality youth youth-culpability
Latest Conference: 2021-10-15
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether the mandatory exclusion of murder defendants between the ages of 14 and 18 from Juvenile Court precludes individualized consideration of their youth in contravention of Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), which instructs that "imposition of a State's most severe penalties on juvenile offenders cannot proceed as though they were not children."

2. Whether the mandatory imposition of the maximum punishment of a life sentence on Concepcion was an unconstitutionally disproportionate punishment, where both his youth and his intellectual disability diminished his culpability.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the mandatory exclusion of murder defendants between the ages of 14 and 18 from Juvenile Court precludes individualized consideration of their youth in contravention of Miller v. Alabama

Docket Entries

2021-10-18
Petition DENIED.
2021-09-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/15/2021.
2021-09-27
Waiver of right of respondent Massachusetts to respond filed.
2021-06-14
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 27, 2021)

Attorneys

Massachusetts
Thomas Edward BocianOffice of the Massachusetts Attorney General, Respondent
Raymond Concepcion
Ruth Greenberg — Petitioner