No. 23A64

D'Andre M. Johnson v. United States

Lower Court: Armed Forces
Docketed: 2023-07-24
Status: Presumed Complete
Type: A
Tags: cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment military-confinement sentence-appropriateness uniform-code-of-military-justice
Key Terms:
Punishment
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

Question not identified.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether military officials may constitutionally subject a service member to confinement conditions that constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment and Article 55 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and whether courts-martial must consider evidence of such conditions in reviewing sentence appropriateness

Docket Entries

2023-07-24
Application (23A64) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until October 5, 2023.
2023-07-20
Application (23A64) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from August 6, 2023 to October 5, 2023, submitted to The Chief Justice.
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Attorneys

D'Andre M. Johnson
Spencer Ross Nelson — United States Air Force, Air Force JAG Corps, Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. Prelogar — Solicitor General, Respondent