No. 21-6257
Jevon Dion Jackson v. Wisconsin
Tags: as-applied-challenge eddings-v-oklahoma eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-rule miller-v-alabama proportionality proportionality-review youth-mitigation
Latest Conference:
2022-01-14
Question Presented (from Petition)
1. Whether a sentencing court adequately considers the mitigating aspects of youth where it considers at least some of those aspects to be aggravating. See Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460, 476 (2012); Eddings v. Oklahoma, 455 U.S. 104, 116 (1982).
2. Whether Mr. Jackson's sentence to die in prison is unconstitutionally disproportionate as applied in his case. See Jones v. Mississippi, 141 S. Ct. 1307, 1322 (2021).
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a sentencing court adequately considers the mitigating aspects of youth
Docket Entries
2022-01-18
Petition DENIED.
2021-12-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/14/2022.
2021-12-07
Waiver of right of respondent State of Wisconsin to respond filed.
2021-11-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 13, 2021)
Attorneys
Jevon Dion Jackson
John Robert Mills — Phillips Black, Petitioner
State of Wisconsin
Anne C Murphy — Department of Justice, Respondent