age-of-culpability
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-6046 | Antonio Lebaron Melton v. Florida | Florida | 2023-11-17 | Denied | IFP | age-of-culpability age-of-offender criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment roper-v-simmons scientific-evidence | 1. Does this Court's holding in Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005), that the death penalty is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment for i… |
| 22-7424 | Darryl Bryan Barwick v. Florida | Florida | 2023-05-01 | Denied | IFP | age-of-culpability cognitive-deficits cognitive-impairment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mental-age neuropsychological-disorder state-constitutional-law | 1. Does a state constitutional provision which prohibits any consideration of evolving standards of decency violate the Eighth Amendment? 2. In light… |
| 19-8927 | Alfred Brian Mitchell v. Tommy Sharp, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2020-07-08 | Denied | IFP | age-of-culpability cognitive-science constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment sentencing-aggravator standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Given this Court's prior ruling that the text of Oklahoma's "heinous, atrocious, or cruel" death-penalty aggravator is unconstitutionally vague, is… |
| 19-7594 | Felix Lopez-Cabrera v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment age-of-culpability age-of-majority criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-sentences national-consensus neuroscience | Whether Supreme Court jurisprudence finding mandatory life sentences for juveniles cruel and unusual under the Eight Amendment, and non-mandatory life… |
| 18-8041 | Mark Johnson v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adolescent-culpability age-as-factor age-of-culpability brain-development criminal-procedure de-facto-life-sentence due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana roper-v-simmons | This Court has issued at least four decision finding that adolescents are less culpable than adults. Dr. Laurence Steinberg has determined that the li… |