age-of-culpability

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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…